Description: Phylogeny of decapods: moving towards a consensus.- Notes on the position of the true freshwater crabs within the Brachyrhynchan Eubrachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura).- Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Brachynotus (Brachyura: Varunidae) based on the 16S rRNA gene.- Austinogebia, a new genus in the Upogebidae and rediagnosis of its close relative, Gebiacantha Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea).- Recent samples of mainly rare decapod Crustacea taken from the deep-sea floor of the southern West Europe Basin.- Data on the family Pandalidae around the Canary Islands, with first record of Plesionika antigai (Caridea).- Crustacea Decapoda of Paripe River Estuary, Pernambuco, Brazil.- Intertidal habitats and decapod faunal assemblages (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Socotra Island, Republic of Yemen.- The crab species found on the coasts of Gkeada (Imbroz) Island in the Aegean Sea.- Evidence of paraphyly in the neotropical Porcellanid genus Neopisosoma (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) based on molecular characters.- Growth in Crustacea -- twenty years on.- Sex-related variability of rostrum morphometry of Aristeus antennatus (Decapoda: Aristeidae) from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece).- Influence of diet on sex differentiation of Hippolyte inermis Leach (Decapoda: Natantia) in the field.- Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the larval development of the estuarine mud prawn Upogebia africana (Crustacea, Thalassinidea).- Mitotic and meiotic chromosomes of the American lobster Homarus americanus (Nephropidae, Decapoda).- Larval abundance and recruitment of Carcinus maenas L. close to its southern geographic limit: a case of match and mismatch.- Choice of prey size and species in Carcinus maenas (L.) feeding on four bivalves ofcontrasting shell morphology.- Intertidal distribution and species composition of brachyuran crabs at two rocky shores in central Portugal.- Morphometric comparison between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of Pontophilus norvegicus (Decapoda, Crangonidae).- Notes on the distribution and biology of the deep-sea crab Bathynectes maravigna (Brachyura: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea.- Notes on the biology of Cancer bellianus (Brachyura, Cancridae) around the Canary Islands.- Comparative suitability of binocular observation, burrow counting and excavation for the quantification of the mangrove fiddler crab Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edwards).- A comparison of alternative methods for estimating population density of the fiddler crab Uca annulipes at Saco Mangrove, Inhaca Island (Mozambique).- Aspects of the population dynamics of Neosarmatium meinerti at Mgazana, a warm temperate mangrove swamp in the East Cape, South Africa, investigated using an indirect method.- Seasonal abundance and recruitment in an estuarine population of mud crabs, Scylla paramamosain, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.- Major claws make male fiddler crabs more conspicuous to visual predators: a test using human observers.- Feeding activity of Callinectes ornatus Ordway, 1863 and Callinectes danae Smith, 1869 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae) in Ubatuba, SP, Brazil.- A histochemical and ultrastructural study of oogenesis in Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827).- Prevalence of bacteria in the spermathecae of female snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio (Brachyura: Majidae).- Discards of the Algarve (southern Portugal) crustacean trawl fishery.- Effect of codend mesh size on the performance of the deep-water bottom trawl used in the red shrimp fishery in the Strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea).- Protein requirement of the prawn Marsupenaeus japonicus estimated by a factorial method.- The effect of fixatives in the quantification of morphological lipofuscin as an age index in crustaceans.

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