Meeting Abstract 41.1  Friday, Jan. 4  Molecularly Based Re-examination of Subfamily Relationships and Polyphyly in the Pinnotheridae (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) PALACIOS-THEIL, E*; CUESTA, JA; FELDER, DL; Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette; ICMAN-CSIC, Spain; Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette emma@ull.edu The family Pinnotheridae is presently comprised of 306 described species distributed among 56 genera. Many others remain to […]

Meeting Abstract 41.4  Friday, Jan. 4  Molecular phylogeny of the Thalassinidea based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes ROBLES, R.*; TUDGE, C.C.; DWORSCHAK, P.C.; POORE, G.C.B.; FELDER, D.L.; University of Louisiana at Lafayette rxr8359@louisiana.edu We conducted a molecular based phylogenetic analysis of the thalassinidean families Axianassidae, Axiidae, Callianassidae, Callianideidae, Calocarididae, Ctenochelidae, Laomediidae, Micheleidae, Strahlaxiidae, Thalassinidae, Thomassiniidae, and Upogebiidae. […]

Meeting Abstract 41.5  Friday, Jan. 4  Molecular phylogeny of Dendrobranchiata inferred from two nuclear markers MA, K.Y.*; CHU, K.H.; CHAN, T.Y.; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; National Taiwan Ocean University makayana@gmail.com Dendrobranchiata is a diverse group of marine shrimps consisting of seven families in two superfamilies (Penaeoidea and Sergestoidea). Attention […]

Meeting Abstract 41.6  Friday, Jan. 4  Decapod phylogeny: What can nuclear protein-coding genes tell us? CHU, K.H.*; TSANG, L.M.; MA, K.Y.; CHAN, T.Y.; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; The Chinese University of Hong Kong; National Taiwan Ocean University kahouchu@cuhk.edu.hk The high diversity of decapods has attracted the interest of carcinologists […]

Meeting Abstract 41.2  Monday, Jan. 5  Occurrence of the rhizocephalan and isopod parasites on three intertidal hermit crabs in Japan ASAKURA, A.*; IMAZU, M.; Nat. Hist. Mus. Inst. Chiba, Japan; Toho Univ., Funabashi, Japan asakura@chiba-muse.or.jp To examine the prevalence of rhizocephalan and isopod parasitism, we sampled three hermit crab species, Pagurus filholi (n=5738), P. maculosus (n=720), and […]

Meeting Abstract 41.6  Monday, Jan. 5  Hypersymbioses in the pinnotherid crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae): a review MCDERMOTT, J.J.; Franklin and Marshall College jmcdermo@fandm.edu Members of the brachyuran family Pinnotheridae are nearly all symbionts of other invertebrates; some crabs are subtly parasitic and others commensalistic. Most live inside bivalve mollusks or in the tubes or burrows of polychaetes […]

Meeting Abstract 41.5  Monday, Jan. 5  First report of Orthione griffenis Markham, 2004 (Isopoda: Bopyridae: Pseudioninae) from China and comparison with types specimens and collections from the west coast of the United States WILLIAMS, J. D.*; AN, J.; Hofstra Univ., New York biojdw@hofstra.edu Orthione griffenis Markham, 2004 was originally described from thalassinid mudshrimp hosts collected in Oregon. […]

Meeting Abstract 41.3  Monday, Jan. 5  Factors Affecting the Distribution and Infection Success of Two North American Sacculinids (Rhizocephala) O’BRIEN, J.J.; University of South Alabama jobrien@jaguar1.usouthal.edu Heterosaccus californicus parasitizes majid crabs along the western coast of North America south of Bodega Bay while Loxothylacus texanus is endemic on species of portunids in the Gulf of Mexico. For […]

Meeting Abstract 41.1  Monday, Jan. 5  A First Look at the Phylogeny of the Entoniscidae SHIELDS, Jeffrey D.*; MILLER, Terrence L.; BOYKO, Christopher B.; VIMS; VIMS; Molloy College, NY jeff@vims.edu The Entoniscidae are a bizarre group of parasitic Isopoda that live internally within their decapod hosts. They live internally in the hemocoels of their hosts and apparently […]

Meeting Abstract 41.5  Tuesday, Jan. 5  The energetic cost of surface active behaviors in dolphins NOREN, DP*; DUNKIN, RC; WILLIAMS, TM; NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz; Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz dawn.noren@noaa.gov Surface active behaviors (SABs), such as tail slaps and breaches, are performed by cetaceans over a range of behavioral […]