Diversity, abundance and distribution of river shrimps (decapoda, caridea) in the largest river basin of Costa Rica, Central America

Crustaceana Monographs

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 197-211

  Rolier Lara, Luis ^a   Wehrtmann, Ingo S ^b  

^a Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Diquís   (Costa Rica)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 85002768038     PISSN: 15707024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004174252.i-354.140     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. ABELE, L. G. & WOM-KIM, 1984. Notes on the freshwater shrimp of Isla del Coco with the description of Macrobrachium cocoense, new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society Washington, 97(4): 951-960.
2. ÁLVAREZ, M. D., J. CABRERA & Y. LOPEZ, 1996. Morfometría, época reproductiva y talla comercial de Macrobrachium americanum (Crustacea: Palaemonidae) en Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 44: 127-132.
3. BAUER, R. T. & J. DELAHOUSSAYE, 2008. Life history migrations of the amphidromous river shrimp Macrobrachium ohione from a continental large river system. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 28(4): 622-632.
4. BOTT, R., 1967. Fluβ-Krabben aus dem westlichen Mittelamerika (Crust., Decap.). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 48: 373-380.
5. BOTT, R., 1968. Fluβ-Krabben aus dem östlichen Mittel-Amerika und von den Groβen Antillen. Senckenbergiana Biologica, 49: 39-49.
6. BOWLES, D. E., K. AZIZ & C. L. KNIGHT, 2000. Macrobrachium (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) in the contiguous United States: a review of the species and an assessment of threats to their survival. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20: 158-171.
7. CHACE, F. A. & H. H. HOBBS, 1969. The freshwater and terrestrial decapod crustaceans of the West Indies with special reference to Dominica. United States National Museum Bulletin, 292: 1-258.
8. CHIA, O. K. S. & P. K. L. NG, 2006. The freshwater crabs of Sulawesi, with descriptions of two new genera and four new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 54: 383-428.
9. DE GRAVE, S., Y. CAI & A. ANKER, 2008. Global diversity of shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia, 595: 287-293.
10. DE GRAVE, S., N. D. PENTCHEFF, S. T. AHYONG, T.-Y. CHAN, K. A. CRANDALL, P. C. DWORSCHAK, D. L. FELDER, R. M. FELDMANN, C. H. J. M. FRANSEN, L. Y. D. GOULDING, R. LEMAITRE, M. E. Y. LOW, J. W. MARTIN, P. K. L. NG, C. E. SCHWEITZER, S. H. TAN, D. TSHUDY & R. WETZER, 2009. A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bull. Zool., (Supplement) 21: 1-114.
11. ECHEVERRÍ-SÁEENZ, S., R. VARGAS & I. S. WEHRTMANN, 2003. Diversity of decapods inhabiting the largest mangrove system of Pacific Costa Rica. Nauplius, 11(2): 91-97.
12. EGIRH, 2005. Estrategia para la gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos en Costa Rica, diagnóstico: primera etapa del plan de manejo integral del recurso hídrico: una estrategia nacional para el MIRH. Proyecto BID ATN/WP-8467-CR: 1-114. (Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía Instituto Meteorológico Nacional, San José).
13. GAMBA, A. L., 1982. Macrobrachium: its presence in estuaries of the northern Venezuelan coast (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Caribbean Journal of Science, 18: 23-25.
14. HENDRICKX, M. E., 1995. Camarones. In: Guía FAO para la identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca, Pacífico Centro-Oriental. Vol. 1, Plantas e Invertebrados: 417-537. (FAO, Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación, Rome).
15. HOBBS, H. H. & C. W. HART, 1982. The shrimp genus Atya (Decapoda: Atyidae). Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology, 364: 1-143.
16. HOLMQUIST, J. G., J. M. SCHMIDT-GENGENBACH & B. BUCHANAN-YOSHIOKA, 1998. High dams and marine-freshwater linkages: effects on native and introduced fauna in the Caribbean. Conservation Biology, 12: 621-630.
17. HOLTHUIS, L. B., 1952. The subfamily Palaemoninae. A general revision of the Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Natantia) of the Americas. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Papers, 12: 1-396.
18. ICE, 2009. Déjenos contarle, revista informativa del Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Diquís: 1-15. (Septiembre 2009, 1 ed, año 1, Costa Rica).
19. LARA, L. R. & I. S. WEEHRTMANN, 2009. Reproductive biology of the freshwater shrimp Macrobrachium carcinus (L.) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) from Costa Rica, Central America. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 29(3): 343-349.
20. MARCH, J. G., J. P. BENSTEAD, C.M. PRINGLE & F. N. SCATENA, 2003. Damming tropical island streams: problems, solutions, alternatives. Bioscience, 53: 1069-1078.
21. MEJÍA-ORTÍZ, L.M., F. ALVAREZ, R. ROMAN & J. A. VICCON-PALE, 2001. Fecundity and distribution of freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium in the Huitzilapan river, Veracruz, Mexico. Crustaceana, 74: 69-77.
22. MONTOYA, J. V., 2003. Freshwater shrimps of the genus Macrobrachium associated with roots of Eichhornia crassipes (Water Hyacinth) in the Orinoco Delta (Venezuela). Caribbean Journal of Science, 39: 155-159.
23. RODRÍGUEZ, G., 1982. Les crabes d'eau douce d'Amerique. Famille des Pseudothelphusidae. Faune Tropicale, 22: 1-224. (ORSTOM, Paris).
24. RODRÍGUEZ, G. & I. HEDSTRÖM, 2000. The freshwater crabs of the Barbilla National Park, Costa Rica (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudothelpusidae), with notes on the evolution of structures for spermatophore retention. Proceedings of the Biological SocietyWashington, 113(2): 420-425.
25. ROME, N. E., S. L. CONNER & R. T. BAUER, 2009. Delivery of hatching larvae to estuaries by an amphidromous river shrimp: tests of hypotheses based on larval moulting and distribution. Freshwater Biology, 54(9): 1924-1932. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02244.x
26. SMALLEY, A. E., 1963. The genus Potimirim in Central America (Crustacea, Atyidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 11: 177-183.
27. SMALLEY, A. E., 1964. The river crabs of Costa Rica, and the subfamilies of the Pseudothelphusidae. Tulane Studies in Zoology, 12: 5-13.
28. SMALLEY, A. E., 1970. A new genus of freshwater crabs from Guatemala, with a key to the middle American genera (Crustacea Decapoda, Pseudothelphusidae). American Midland Naturalist, 83: 96-106.
29. VALENCIA, D. M. & M. R. CAMPOS, 2007. Freshwater prawns of the genus Macrobrachium Bate, 1868 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae) of Colombia. Zootaxa, 1456: 1-44.
30. VARGAS, R. & I. S. WEHRTMANN, 2009. Decapods. In: I. S. WEHRTMANN & J. CORTÉS (eds.),Marine biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America. Monographiae Biologicae, 86: 209-228. (Springer and Business Media B.V., Berlin).
31. YEO, D. C. J., P. K. L. NG, N. CUMBERLIDGE, C. MAGALHÃES, S. R. DANIELS & M. R. CAMPOS, 2008. Global diversity of crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia, 595: 275-286.