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Project code: 1-08-083

REVISION OF THE SYSTEM OF THE BRACHYURAN CRABS

Main researcher: ŠTEVČIĆ, ZDRAVKO (48323)

Assistants

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.

Papers on project (total): 36
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 3

Institution name: Institut "Ruđer Bošković", Zagreb (98)
Department/Institute: Center for Marine Research, Rovinj
Address: Ulica Giordana Paliage 5, HR 522l0 Rovinj
City: 52210 - Rovinj, Hrvatska

Communication: Phone: 385 (0)52 811 544; Fax: 385 (0)52 813 496

Summary: General revision of the classification of the brachyuran crabs (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura) in the form of a monograph. The monograph will include a critical review of the present state of knowledge of the classification of the taxon under study, re-description and re-classification of the whole hierarchical system of higher taxa above the generic level.

Keywords: Brachyuran crabs, Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura, taxonomy (systematics), revision, re-description, re-classification

Research goals: The principal goal of the present research is to elaborate a modern complete well explained classification of brachyuran crabs in the form of a monograph corresponding to the state of knowledge at the end of this century. Namely, the last complete monograph appeared in 1957, and up to now a considerable progress in knowledge of the taxon has occured. But, the data were not critically interpreted and synthetized in a consistent phylogenetic system. The present research aims to classify properly all the known higher taxa above the generic level into a modern phylogenetic system and in such a way all lacunae will be fullfiled and inconsistencies corrected. It is expected that the monograph will be in concordance with modern trends in the phylogenetic systematics and that all taxa will be properly established, diagnosed, described using a wider range of systematic characters, named according to the Rules of the zoological nomenclature (In: International Code of Zoological Nomenclature) and properly ranked and arranged (ordered) in the hierarchical classificatory scheme. As such this research will resolve some old questions and pose new ones so that it will be useful for the progress of the study of the brachyuran systematics.

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