Intertidal reefs comprised of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) have long experienced habitat loss, altering patch characteristics size and distance from edge to interior, potentially influencing spatial dynamics host-parasite relationships. Using two parasitic relationships, one between host pea crab (Zaops ostreum) other a xanthid (Eurypanopeus depressus) rhizocephalan barnacle (Loxo...

A new crab Liomerinae, Neoliomera moana sp. nov., is described from the Marquesas Islands, based on three specimens collected by hand at the entrance of submarine caves at depths of 6-28 m. Within the genus the new species belongs to a group of six species that have the carapace cristate on the anterolateral margins. It can be recognized by the presence of a double crest on the upper margin of ...