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Publications:
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Florida Department of Enviromantal Regulation, Technical Series, 8(1): 1-760.
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Bouvier E.L. 1940. Decapodes Marcheurs. Faune de France, 37: 1-404, 222 figs, 14 pls. Paris:
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Brashnikov V. 1907. Materials on the fauna of Russian Eastern Sea collected by the schooner
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Bulgurkov K.I. 1968. Callinectes sapidus Rathbun in the Black Sea. Izv. NIORS, 9: 97-99.
Bulnheim H.-P. & Bahns S. 1996. Genetic variation and divergence in the genus Carcinus
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Chace F.A. Jr. 1951. The oceanic crabs of the genera Planes and Pachygrapsus. Proceedings of the
United States National Museum, 101(3272): 65-103, figs. 1-8.
Czerniavsky W. 1884. Pribrezhnye desiatinogie rakoobraznye Ponta [Coastal decapod crustaceans of
Pont] / Crustacea Decapoda pontica litoralia (Materialia ad zoographiam ponticam comparatam, Fasc.
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Davie P. & Fransen C. & Türkay M. 2010. Geryon trispinosus (Herbst, 1803). Accessed through:
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Dawson E.W. 1989. King crabs of the world (Crustacea: Lithodidae) and their fisheries. A
comprehensive bibliography. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, Miscellaneous publication, 101: 1-
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Dawson E.W. & Webber W.R. 1991. The deep-sea red crab Chaceon ("Gerion"): a guide to
information and a reference list of the family Geryonidae. Miscellaneous series 24, National Museum of
New Zealand: 1-83.
Derjugin K.M. & Kobjakova Z.I. 1935. Zur Decapodenfauna des Japanischen Meeres Zoologischer
Anzeiger, 112: 141-147.
Faccia I. & Alyakrinsky A. & Bianchi C.N. 2009. The crab that came in from the cold: first record of
Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 4(4): 715-
718, fig. 1, 2.
Falciai L. & Minervini R. 1992. Guida dei crostacei decapodi d'Europa. Padova, Franco Muzzio
Editore, pp. 1-282, col. pl. 1-18, 600 unnumb. b&w figures.
Fong K.H. & Dunham J.S. 2007. Inshore Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) biology in a Central
Coast Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Shellfish Research, 26(2): 581-595.
Forest J. 1965. Campagnes du "Professeur Lacaze-Duthiers" aux Baleares: juin 1953 et aout 1954.
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Garth J.S. 1958. Brachyura of the Pacific Coast of America. Oxyrhyncha. Allan Hancock Pacific
Expeditions, 21(1): i-xii, 1-499, fig. 1-9; 21(2) [Tables and plates]: 503-854, tabs. 1-107, pls A-Z, Z1-
Z4, 1-55.
Gillespie G.E. & Phillips A.C. & Paltzat D.L. & Therriault T.W. 2007. Status of the European Green
Crab, Carcinus maenas, in British Columbia - 2006. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and
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Guinot D. 1979. Morphologie et phylogenese des Brachyoures. Memoires du Museum national
d'Histoire naturelle. Nouvelle Serie. Serie A, Zoologie 112: 3-354.
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Handbook 40. Pp. i-iii, 1-267, figs. 1-102, 12 unnumb. colour plates. Ministry of Provincial Secretary
and Govt. Services, Provincial Secretary.
Holthuis L.B. 1961. Report on a collection of Crustacea Decapoda and Stomatopoda from Turkey and
the Balkans. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden, 47: 1-67, fig. 1-15, pl. 1,2.
Holthuis L.B. & Gottlieb E. 1958. An annotated list of the decapod Crustacea of the Mediterranean
coast of Israel, with an appendix listing the Decapoda of the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the
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Holthuis L.B. & Heerebout G.R. 1986. De Nederlandse Decapoda (garnalen, kreeften en krabben).
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Ingle R.W. 1980. British crabs. Pp. 1-222, pls. 1-34, figs. 1-111. British Museum (Natural Histiry),
London & Oxford University Press, Inc., New York.
Kalishevskiy M.F. 1905. Materialy dlia kartsinologicheskoy fauny Odesskogo zaliva. [On the
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Russian).
Karasawa H. & Schweitzer C.E. & Feldmann R.M. 2008. Revision of Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815
(Decapoda: Brachyura) with emphasis on the fossil genera and families. Journal of Crustacean
Biology, 28(1): 82-127.
Kepel A.A & Tsareva L.A. 2005. The first occurrence of tropical crabs Portunus sanguinolentus
(Herbst, 1783) and Plagusia depressa tuberculata Lamarck, 1818 in Peter the Great Bay, Sea of
Japan. Biologiya Morya, 31(2): 138-139, fig. 1, 2.
Kobjakova Z.I. 1937. Systematisch Uebersicht der Dekapoden aus dem Okhotskischen und
Japanischen Meere. Uchenie Zapiski Leningr. Univ., 15, 93-154, pls. 1-3. (In Russian with German
summary).
Kobjakova Z.I. 1958. Desyatinogiye raki (Decapoda) rayona yuzhykl Kurilskikh Ostrovov. [Systematic
review of the Decapoda of the southern Kuril Islands]. Invest. Far East Seas USSR, 5, 220-248. (In
Russian).
Kobjakova Z. I. 1967. Decapoda (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Possjet Bay (the Sea of Japan). In:
Biocoenoses of the Possjet Bay (the Sea of Japan). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas of the
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Kobjakova Z.I. & Dolgopolskaya M.A. 1969. Otriad desiatinogie - Decapoda. Opredelitel fauny
Chernogo i Azovskogo morey. Tom 2. Svobodnozhivuschie bespozvonochnye. Rakoobraznye. [Order
decapods - Decapoda. The field guide for the Black and Azov Seas. Volume 2. Free-living
invertebrates. Crustaceans.] Pp. 207-306, pls. 1-7. Naukova Dumka, Kiev. (In Russian).
Kocatas A. 1982. On the occurrence of Sirpus zariquieyi Gordon (Decapoda Brachyura) in the Black
Sea and the Sea of Marmara. Crustaceana, 43(2): 177-180.
Komai T. & Amaoka K. 1989. Records of some rare deep-sea decapod crustaceans from the Okhotsk
coast of Hokkaido (Caridea and Anomura). Bull. Fас. Fish. Hokkaido Univ. 40(4): 278-291. [Anomura:
Lithodes couesi & Paralomis verrilli].
Komai T. & Maruyama S. & Konishi K. 1992. A list of decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Northern
Japan. Researches on Crustacea, 21: 189-205. (In Japanese). [Chionoecetes bairdi].
Labai V.S. 2004. Paracleistostoma cristatum De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Decapoda) from an estuary of
southern Sakhalin - a new record for Russia. Biologiya Morya 30(1): 72 - 75.
McLaughlin P.A. & Komai T. & Lemaitre R. & Rahayu D.L. 2010. Annotated checklist of anomuran
decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and
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Macpherson E. 1988. Revision of the family Lithodidae Samouelle, 1819 (Crustacea, Decapoda,
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de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona.
Makarov V.V. 1938. Rakoobraznye. Anomura, In Shtakel'berg, A.A., (ed.) Fauna USSR, 16 (10) (3), i-
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Makarov V.V. 1940. The decapod Crustacea of the Bering and Chukchees Seas. Invest. Far East
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Manning R.B. & Holthuis L.B. 1981. West African brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda).
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Marinov T.M. 1990. Zoobentos of the Bulgaria sector of the Black Sea. Bulg. Ac. Sci. 196 pp. Sofia.
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