Language: Bilingual with 4 English and 4 Spanish articles
The first volume of issue 5 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.
- Estructura poblacional de Portunus xantusii affinis (Faxon, 1893) (Brachyura: Portunidae) en fondos blandos de las costas de Jalisco y Colima, México. Arciniega-Flores, J., J.E, Michel-Morfín, & V. Landa-Jaime.
- Hermit crabs (Crustacea: Paguroidea) in the biological collection of CICIMAR, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Hendrickx, M.E., M. Ayón-Parente, E. Felix Pico,& V.G. Vargas López.
- Primer registro de Panulirus inflatus y P. penicillatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae) en la costa salvadoreña. López, W.A., & L.A. Pineda.
- Camarones pelágicos (Crustacea: Decapoda) en aguas del Pacifico Sureste. Guzmán G., G.
- Second capture of Odontozona foresti Hendrickx, 2002 (Stenopodidea) and Munida bapensis Hendrickx, 2000 (Galatheoidea) in westem Mexico. Hendrickx, M.E.
- First record of Gastrodelphys dalesi (Green, 1961) (Copepoda: Cyclopoida: Gastrodelphyidae) in the sabellid polychaete Megalomma circumspectum (Moore, 1923) from the Gulf of California. Gómez, S., & M.A Tovar-Hernández.
- Los géneros Gnathophausia y Neognathophausia (Malacostraca: Lophogastrida) en el Pacífico mexicano. Ibarra Rivera, J.S., & M.E. Hendrickx.
- The use of trochophore larvae [Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793)] as a replacement for live feeds used in the larval culture of Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931). Chávez-Sánchez, M.C., C.A. Martínez-Palacios, M. Gallardo Mar, B. Gómez-Gil & A.C. Puello-Cruz.