Language: Bilingual with 4 English and 4 Spanish articles
The second volume of the fourth issue of a series of volumes on marine crustaceans from the east Pacific includes 8 contributions on different aspects of crustaceans biology, fishery, distribution, management and ecology in the region of the east Pacific. One or several contributions are dealing with amphipods, copepods, isopods, mysids, euphausiids, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, anomuran and true crabs, etc. This special issue is dedicated to the late Lipke B. Holthuis (1921-2008), a Dutch carcinologist who wrote a large number of contributions on crustacea from all over the world.
- Notas sobre la biologia y pesquería del langostino Colorado Pleuroncodes monodon (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Decapoda: Galatheidae), en el Pacífico sudeste. Ramírez-Aristizábal, A.J., R Alvarez-León & C. Oyarzun-González.
- Dinámica poblacional de Callinectes bellicosus (Stimpson, 1859) y Callinectes arcuatus (Ordway, 1863) en Las Guasimas, Sonora, México durante el periodo 2002 a 2004. Reyes Benítez, E., J. López Martínez, M.O. Nevárez Martínez & R. Morales Azpeitia.
- Description of the first zoea of Acanthephyra brevicarinata Hanamura, 1984 (Caridea: Oplophoridae) from deep water of the Gulf of California, Mexico. Hendrickx, M.E. & M. García-Guerrero.
- Hypolobocera olgaluciae, una nueva especie de cangrejo de agua dulce (Brachyura, Pseudothelphusidae) del río Chancos, Departamento del Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Ramos-Tafur, G. & R. Ríos.
- Nuevos registros de camarones carideos intermareales (Crustacea: Caridea) de la costa de Oaxaca, México. Martínez Guerrero, B.
- Rediscovery of Apseudes cedroensis Menzies, 1953 (Tanaidacea: Apseudidae) in the Gulf of Cahfomia, Mexico. Hendrickx, M.E.
- New records of crustaceans (Isopoda and Decapoda) along the Pacific coast of Mexico. Ayón-Parente, M. & M.E. Hendrickx.
- Annotated checklist of the amphipods (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from the tropical eastern Pacific. García Madrigal, M.S.