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Scorpion Species with Smaller Body Sizes and Narrower Chelae Have the Highest Venom Potency

  • Alannah Forde,
  • Adam Jacobsen,
  • Michel M. Dugon and
  • Kevin Healy

17 March 2022

Scorpionism is a global health concern, with an estimation of over one million annual envenomation cases. Despite this, little is known regarding the drivers of scorpion venom potency. One widely held view is that smaller scorpions with less-develope...

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  • Open Access
1,865 Views
59 Pages

Taxonomic Revision of Pasiphaea (Pasiphaeidae: Crustacea) of the Southwest Tropical Pacific with a Description of Eight New Species

  • Anton M. Tikhomirov,
  • Dmitrii N. Kulagin,
  • Anastasiia A. Lunina,
  • Elodie Vourey and
  • Alexander L. Vereshchaka

19 September 2025

The genus Pasiphaea Savigny, 1816, comprises a diverse assemblage of meso- to bathypelagic shrimps, currently including 69 valid species. Taxonomic investigations have long been hampered by numerous synonymies and by species known only from their ori...

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  • Open Access
1,739 Views
14 Pages

23 January 2025

Barrow Island, off the coast of north-west Western Australia, supports a rich subterranean amphipod fauna amid major resource development. Previous biological surveys for the purpose of species documentation and environmental impact assessment have h...

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  • Open Access
3,689 Views
12 Pages

11 June 2024

The family Atyidae is composed of species whose existence has been known since the seventeenth century. Widely found in the Caribbean, Atya lanipes is a freshwater scraper/filter feeder shrimp with an amphidromous complex life cycle. Hunte (1975) des...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
612 Views
14 Pages

18 August 2025

The oriental river prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense) is one of the most popular freshwater prawn in China. In order to study the relationships between morphometric traits and body mass across different geographical locations and provide references of...