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  1. Beneath the surface: co-habitation of land crabs recruits of Johngarthia lagostoma and its relevance for conservation on oceanic islands

    Article • February 2024, Research Square

    Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro, William Santana

  2. Morphological and molecular support for Amphithrax verrucosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1832) and Amphithrax aculeatus (Herbst, 1790) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) as valid species

    Article • Zoosystematics and Evolution, January 2024, Pensoft Publishers

    William Santana

  3. Setal Morphology of the Feeding Apparatus of Three Sesarmid Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda Grapsoidea) from Brazil

    Article • Thalassas An International Journal of Marine Sciences, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Santana

  4. Beneath the surface: co-habitation of recruits of the land crab Johngarthia lagostoma and its relevance for conservation on oceanic islands

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro, William Santana

  5. Brazilian Miocene crabs II. A new genus and species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Pirabas Formation, northern Brazil

    Article • Journal of South American Earth Sciences, January 2024, Elsevier

    William Santana

  6. 110-million-years-old fossil suggests early parasitism in shrimps

    Article • Scientific Reports, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Santana

  7. Validation of Bahiacaris Schweitzer, Santana, Pinheiro & Feldmann (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from the Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil

    Article • Zootaxa, July 2023, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  8. Checklist of the shallow-water marine Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Barbados, West Indies

    Article • Zootaxa, July 2023, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  9. Validation of Chronocancer camilosantanai† Santana, Tavares, Martins, Melo & Pinheiro (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Sedimentary Basin, Brazil

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, May 2023, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  10. Brazilian Miocene crabs I. Taxonomic review of Cyclocancer tuberculatus Beurlen, 1958 and Hepatella amazonica Beurlen, 1958 (Pancrustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura)

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, April 2023, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  11. Intertidal burrowing shrimps (Axiidea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae; Gebiidea: Axiannassidae, Upogebiidae) collected along the Brazilian coast

    Article • Marine Biology Research, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  12. A new genus and species of brachyuran crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Aptian-Albian (Cretaceous) of the Araripe Sedimentary Basin, Brazil

    Article • Journal of South American Earth Sciences, June 2022, Elsevier

    William Santana

  13. Fossil hymenosomatid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of NE Brazil

    Article • Cretaceous Research, June 2022, Elsevier

    William Santana

  14. A first report of decapod crustaceans (Anomura and Brachyura) from Laje de Santos: a no-take marine reserve in the southeast coast of Brazil

    Article • Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, February 2022, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

    William Santana

  15. Description of the First Zoea of the Ghost Shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (A. Milne-Edwards, 1870) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callichiridae) from the Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Article • Thalassas An International Journal of Marine Sciences, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana

  16. Much more than hooked: Setal adaptations for camouflage in Macrocoeloma trispinosum (Latreille, 1825) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)

    Article • Arthropod Structure & Development, January 2022, Elsevier

    William Santana

  17. Molecular phylogeny of Thoe Bell, 1836 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea)

    Article • Nauplius, January 2022, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  18. Updated checklist of semi-terrestrial and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) of Barbados, West Indies

    Article • Zootaxa, October 2021, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  19. The First Zoeal Stage of Johngarthia lagostoma (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with Comments on the Validity of the Genus

    Article • Thalassas An International Journal of Marine Sciences, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Santana

  20. First record and a new species of Euphrosynoplax (Crustacea: Pseudorhombilidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, July 2021, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  21. Only carapace or the entire cephalothorax: which is best to obtain chitosan from shrimp fishery waste?

    Article • Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Santana

  22. Larval development of the Caribbean king crab Maguimithrax spinosissimus (Lamarck, 1818), the largest brachyuran in the western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majoidea)

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    William Santana

  23. Morphological changes during ontogeny of the male first and second gonopods of Mithraculus forceps A. Milne-Edwards, 1875 (Brachyura: Majoidea: Mithracidae)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  24. Validation of the Pleistocenic ghost shrimp Callichirus santensis Hernáez, Buchmann & Santana† (Decapoda: Callianassidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2021, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana

  25. Validation of the ghost shrimp species Neocallichirus pinheiroi Hernáez, Windsor, Paula & Santana (Decapoda: Callianassidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2021, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana

  26. SEM studies on first and second gonopod morphology in Mithracidae (Decapoda: Brachyura)

    Article • Nauplius, January 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  27. New Antarctic clawed lobster species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of James Ross Island

    Article • Polar Research, August 2020, Norwegian Polar Institute

    William Santana

  28. A new species of Callichirus (Axiidea, Callianassidae) from the Pleistocene bioclastic sediment of southeast Brazil

    Article • Journal of South American Earth Sciences, August 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana

  29. A new genus for Pericera septemspinosa Stimpson, 1871 and Pericera heptacantha Bell, 1836 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea), based on morphology and molecular data

    Article • Zoosystematics and Evolution, May 2020, Pensoft Publishers

    William Santana

  30. New species of freshwater crab genus Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from Piauí, northeastern Brazil

    Article • Nauplius, January 2020, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  31. A new species of the ghost shrimp genus Neocallichirus Sakai, 1988 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Marine Biology Research, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, William Santana

  32. Natural diet of Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from the Northern Coast of São Paulo, Brazil

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, October 2019, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  33. Redescription and illustration of caridean shrimp from the Cretaceous (Aptian) of Brazil

    Article • Journal of South American Earth Sciences, March 2019, Elsevier

    William Santana

  34. Three new species and a new genus of majoid crabs from the eastern Pacific (Decapoda, Brachyura)

    Article • ZooKeys, February 2019, Pensoft Publishers

    William Santana

  35. Checklist of the species of Macrobrachium Spence Bate, 1868 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the lower Parnaíba River basin, Piauí, Brazil

    Article • Nauplius, August 2018, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  36. A remarkable new genus and species of the planktonic shrimp family Luciferidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Cretaceous (Aptian/Albian) of the Araripe Sedimentary Basin, Brazil

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    William Santana

  37. A new western Atlantic species of Collodes Stimpson (Decapoda, Brachyura, Inachoididae)

    Article • January 2018, Brill

    William Santana

  38. Checklist of fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America. Part I: Anomura and Brachyura

    Article • Nauplius, October 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  39. Distribution of slipper lobsters (Decapoda: Scyllaridae) in Uruguayan waters

    Article • Nauplius, September 2017, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  40. Morphology and ultrastructure of the adult ovarian cycle in Mithracidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    William Santana

  41. ESR dating of Smilodon populator from Toca de Cima dos Pilão, Piauí, Brazil

    Article • Applied Radiation and Isotopes, February 2017, Elsevier

    Dr OSWALDO BAFFA , William Santana

  42. A new hermit crab of the Paguristes tortugae complex (Crustacea: Anomura: Diogenidae), with a key to the western Atlantic species

    Article • Marine Biology Research, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  43. New records of king crabs (Decapoda, Anomura, Lithodidae) from southern Brazil

    Article • Crustaceana, January 2017, Brill

    William Santana

  44. Morphological differences between Stenocionops furcatus (Olivier, 1791) and S. coelatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1878) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea)

    Article • Zootaxa, November 2016, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  45. A new and endangered species of Kingsleya Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from Ceará, northeastern Brazil

    Article • Zootaxa, September 2016, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  46. Morphology of the larval stages of Pitho aculeata (Gibbes, 1850) (Crustacea, Brachyura, Majoidea) and its implications on the taxonomic position of the genus

    Article • Marine Biology Research, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  47. <p><strong>A new species of <em>Sunipea</em> Griffin & Tranter, 1986 (Crustacea: Brachyura: </strong><strong>Inachidae) and a redescription of <em>Sunipea</em> <em>indicus</em> (Alcock...

    Article • Zootaxa, December 2015, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  48. Rochinia confusa, a junior synonym ofR. umbonata(Crustacea: Brachyura: Epialtidae) as revealed by ontogenetic changes

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, October 2015, Cambridge University Press

    William Santana

  49. Large-Field Electron Imaging and X-ray Elemental Mapping Unveil the Morphology, Structure, and Fractal Features of a Cretaceous Fossil at the Centimeter Scale

    Article • Analytical Chemistry, September 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    William Santana

  50. <p><strong>A new genus and two new species of hymenosomatid crabs (Crustacea:Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from the southwestern Atlantic and eastern Australia</strong></p>

    Article • Zootaxa, January 2015, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  51. Larval development of the spider crab Menaethius monoceros (Latreille, 1825), (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Epialtidae)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  52. Shrimps from the Santana Group (Cretaceous: Albian): new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata) and new record (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)

    Article • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, June 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  53. <strong>A new fossil caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Cretaceous (Albian) of the Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil</strong>

    Article • Zootaxa, March 2013, Magnolia Press

    William Santana

  54. On the morphological differentiation between Libinia spinosa and L. ferreirae (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae)

    Article • Zoologia (Curitiba), December 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    William Santana

  55. Plankton-Caught Zoeal Stages and Megalopa of the Lobster Shrimp Axius serratus (Decapoda: Axiidae) from the Bay of Fundy, Canada, With A Summary of Axiidean and Gebiidean Literature on Larval Descriptions

    Article • Journal of Crustacean Biology, February 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Santana

  56. A new species of Euprognatha Stimpson, 1871 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Inachoididae) from off coast of northeastern Brazil

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, January 2008, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  57. Zoeal stages ofPseudomicippe variansMiers, 1879 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae) and a comparison with other Majidae larvae

    Article • Journal of Natural History, December 2006, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  58. Larval development of Notolopas brasiliensis Miers, 1886 (Brachyura: Majoidea: Pisidae) described from laboratory reared material and a reappraisal of the characters of Pisidae

    Article • Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, January 2006, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    William Santana

  59. Larval development of Apiomithrax violaceus (A. Milne Edwards, 1868) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Pisidae) reared in laboratory conditions, and a review of larval characters of Pisidae

    Article • Journal of Natural History, July 2004, Taylor & Francis

    William Santana

  60. Larval stages of Stenocionops furcatus (Olivier, 1791) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea) and a reappraisal of larval morphological characters for Mithracidae

    Article • Journal of Plankton Research, April 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    William Santana