Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia

A Guide to Identification

By: Gary CB Poore

eBook - August 2004 - eRetailers

The only identification guide to southern Australia’s 700 species of lobsters, prawns, crabs and shrimps.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the identification of 800 species of decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from southern Australian marine waters. It is liberally illustrated with more than 1000 line drawings giving good views of many species as well as diagnostic illustrations. Details for each species include the authority, year of description, sometimes a common name, diagnosis, size, geographical distribution, and ecological and depth distribution. The chapter on the Stomatopoda is by Shane Ahyong. + Full description

Sections within each chapter are hierarchical, species within genera, within families (often with subfamilies as well). Identification is achieved through the use of dichotomous keys adapted from many originally published in the primary literature, or developed from scratch. Some keys are to all Australian taxa but most are to southern Australian taxa only.

The information in this book derives from over 200 years of collecting in southern Australian environments, from the intertidal to the deep sea, and publications in numerous journals in several languages. More than 800 of these papers and books are cited.

Winner of the 2005 Whitley Award for Systematics.

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No longer available in a print edition.

Details

ePDF | August 2004
ISBN: 9780643092129
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Available from eRetailers

Features

Only available single text for identifying crustacean species in any part of Australia.
First such guide for 75 years
Over 1000 line drawings
32 spectacular colour plates

1. Introduction
2. Systematics (classification; key to suborders and infraorders)
3. Dendrobranchiata – prawns and midwater shrimps
4. Caridea – shrimps
5. Stenopodidea – coral shrimps and Venus shrimps
6. Polychelida – deep-sea lobsters
7. Astacidea – scampi and crayfish
8. Thalassinidea – ghost shrimps and sponge shrimps
9. Achelata – rock lobsters and bugs
10. Anomura – hermit crabs, porcelain crabs and squat lobsters
11. Brachyura – crabs
12. Stomatopoda – mantis shrimps
Glossary
Taxonomic index

Authors

Gary Poore is one of the world’s leading crustacean taxonomists and past president of The Crustacean Society.