Freshwater crustaceans maintain internal homeostasis by actively regulating ion and water balance across challenging osmotic gradients. The gill epithelium serves as the principal site for ion uptake ...

Juan Mateo Rivera looking for crabs in a stream in Assis, Acre State, Brazil in 2022. In Manizales, perched in the Colombian Andes, researchers are studying how a native species of small fresh-water ...

Integrative taxonomy has emerged as a cornerstone for resolving the true diversity of freshwater crustaceans by melding morphological, molecular and ecological datasets into a unified framework.

Of the 500-plus species of crayfish that exist worldwide, more than 300 varieties inhabit the rivers, lakes, and bayous of the southeastern United States, where they are colloquially called crawfish.

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

It’s crayfish season in Louisiana, but the Pacific Northwest is receiving all the crayfish spotlight. Researchers recently discovered two new species of the crustaceans: the Okanagan crayfish and the ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Freshwater environments cover about 1% of Earth's surface while accounting for more than 10% of known species. Like many marine and terrestrial ecosystems, however, they ...

In an interesting twist, two kinds of rare American freshwater crustaceans have been found to thrive after prescribed burns in their habitats. Populations of vernal pool fairy shrimp in Oregon and ...

The freshwater crustacean Daphnia (water flea) is a common research organism in ecology, toxicology, evolutionary developmental biology, and other fields. Credit must be given to the creator. Only ...