Studies on Decapoda and Copepoda in Memory of Michael Tkay

Reprinted from a special issue of Crustaceana, 31 technical articles about the the Decapoda and Copepoda orders of Crustaceans follow an obituary of Türkay (1948-2015). Among their topics are the feeding ecology of the shrimp Crangon allmanni Kinahan, 1860 (Decapoda, Crangonidae) in the North and White seas; a new species of squat lobster of the genus Munida (Galatheoidea, Munididae) from the Red Sea; reproductive period and recruitment of Penaeoidea shrimp on the southeastern Brazilian coast: implications for the closed season; and a description of a new species of Pachycheles (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae) from the southern Caribbean Sea. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Celio Magalhaes, Dr. (1991), Universidade de Sao Paulo, is a research scientist at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, in Manaus. He has published articles and book chapters on the taxonomy and systematics of Neotropical freshwater decapods.

Carola Becker, Dr. (2011) has worked in projects at Research Institute Senckenberg (Frankfurt, Germany), Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin (Germany) and Queen’s University Belfast (United Kingdom). Her main research interest is the phylogeny, morphology and reproduction of decapod crustaceans.

Peter J. F. Davie, BSc., MSc. (1987), is a Senior Curator at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. He is a taxonomist specialising in Indo-Pacific decapods, particularly crabs, and was a major contributor and editor of the Brachyuran volumes of Treatise on Zoology.

Sven Klimpel Dr. (2003), is Professor at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) and the Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main.

Pedro Martinez-Arbizu, Dr. (2000), Universitat Oldenburg, is a professor and Director of the German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research at Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. He is editor in Chief of the Journal Marine Biodiversity. He has published on taxonomy and systematics of Copepoda and marine Meiofauna.

Moritz Sonnewald, Ph.D. (2012) , Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since 2015 project manager and coordinator Red Sea Biodiversity Surveys. Since 2014 project coordinator Red Sea Biodiversity Surveys. 2012-2014: Scientific employee at the Crustacean section, collaboration in the project GBIF-D (Germany, BMBF).