M. Charmantier-Daures is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier and well known for her work on crustacean ecophysiology and genetics. She also is an editor of Crustaceana - International Journal of Crustacean ResearchJ. Forest (†), editor of the original French volumes of the Traité de Zoologie, with his impressive published record of various groups of Crustacea, acted as a supervising editor of the series.Frederick R. Schram, Ph. D. (1968), University of Chicago, is Professor Emeritus of Systematics and Zoogeography, University of Amsterdam. He has published extensive on fossil and recent crustaceans across almost all major groups., including the text-reference Crustacea (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986).J. Carel von Vaupel Klein, Ph.D. (1984), Leiden University, and formerly employed there as an associate professor (now retired), works on systematics of calanoid copepods and is principal translator of the series Traité de Zoologie / Treatise on Zoology - Crustacea.

• PrefaceVassily Spiridonov & Bernadette Casanova, Order Euphausiacea Dana, 1852Charles H. J. M. Fransen, Order Amphionidacea Williamson, 1973[Editorial notice], Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802Carolina Tavares & Joel W. Martin, Suborder Dendrobranchiata Bate, 1888Mary K. Wicksten, Infraorder Caridea Dana, 1852Joseph W. Goy, Infraorder Stenopodidea Claus, 1872[Vignette only of: Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the marine clawed lobsters]Francesca Gherardi, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Günter Vogt, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo & Keith A. Crandall, Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the freshwater crayfishKari L. Lavalli & Ehud Spanier, Infraorder Palinura Latreille, 1802List of contributorsTaxonomic index Subject index

M. Charmantier-Daures is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier and well known for her work on crustacean ecophysiology and genetics. She also is an editor of Crustaceana - International Journal of Crustacean ResearchJ. Forest (†), editor of the original French volumes of the Traité de Zoologie, with his impressive published record of various groups of Crustacea, acted as a supervising editor of the series.Frederick R. Schram, Ph. D. (1968), University of Chicago, is Professor Emeritus of Systematics and Zoogeography, University of Amsterdam. He has published extensive on fossil and recent crustaceans across almost all major groups., including the text-reference Crustacea (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986).J. Carel von Vaupel Klein, Ph.D. (1984), Leiden University, and formerly employed there as an associate professor (now retired), works on systematics of calanoid copepods and is principal translator of the series Traité de Zoologie / Treatise on Zoology - Crustacea.

• PrefaceVassily Spiridonov & Bernadette Casanova, Order Euphausiacea Dana, 1852Charles H. J. M. Fransen, Order Amphionidacea Williamson, 1973[Editorial notice], Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802Carolina Tavares & Joel W. Martin, Suborder Dendrobranchiata Bate, 1888Mary K. Wicksten, Infraorder Caridea Dana, 1852Joseph W. Goy, Infraorder Stenopodidea Claus, 1872[Vignette only of: Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the marine clawed lobsters]Francesca Gherardi, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Günter Vogt, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo & Keith A. Crandall, Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the freshwater crayfishKari L. Lavalli & Ehud Spanier, Infraorder Palinura Latreille, 1802List of contributorsTaxonomic index Subject index

M. Charmantier-Daures is an associate professor at the University of Montpellier and well known for her work on crustacean ecophysiology and genetics. She also is an editor of Crustaceana - International Journal of Crustacean ResearchJ. Forest (†), editor of the original French volumes of the Traité de Zoologie, with his impressive published record of various groups of Crustacea, acted as a supervising editor of the series.Frederick R. Schram, Ph. D. (1968), University of Chicago, is Professor Emeritus of Systematics and Zoogeography, University of Amsterdam. He has published extensive on fossil and recent crustaceans across almost all major groups., including the text-reference Crustacea (Oxford Univ. Press, 1986).J. Carel von Vaupel Klein, Ph.D. (1984), Leiden University, and formerly employed there as an associate professor (now retired), works on systematics of calanoid copepods and is principal translator of the series Traité de Zoologie / Treatise on Zoology - Crustacea.

• PrefaceVassily Spiridonov & Bernadette Casanova, Order Euphausiacea Dana, 1852Charles H. J. M. Fransen, Order Amphionidacea Williamson, 1973[Editorial notice], Order Decapoda Latreille, 1802Carolina Tavares & Joel W. Martin, Suborder Dendrobranchiata Bate, 1888Mary K. Wicksten, Infraorder Caridea Dana, 1852Joseph W. Goy, Infraorder Stenopodidea Claus, 1872[Vignette only of: Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the marine clawed lobsters]Francesca Gherardi, Catherine Souty-Grosset, Günter Vogt, Javier Diéguez-Uribeondo & Keith A. Crandall, Infraorder Astacidea Latreille, 1802 p.p.: the freshwater crayfishKari L. Lavalli & Ehud Spanier, Infraorder Palinura Latreille, 1802List of contributorsTaxonomic index Subject index