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  1. Climatic regime and its role in shaping patterns of growth and reproduction in the genus Callichirus (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callichiridae)

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, August 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  2. Redescription of Austinixa leptodactyla (Coelho, 1997) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) and synonymy of A. roblesi Palacios Theil & Felder, 2020, with an updated identification key to the genus

    Article • Zootaxa, April 2026, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  3. Unravelling the mating system in the pea crab Austinixa leptodactyla (Coelho, 1997) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  4. A new species of the callianassid ghost shrimp genus Cheramoides Sakai, 2011, from Brazil (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  5. Progressive chelar polymorphism in the mangrove crab, Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) from the south-western Atlantic

    Article • Crustaceana, August 2024, Brill

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  6. The Axiidea in the Museum of Oceanography Petrônio Alves Coelho, Recife, Brazil, with Some Remarks on the Biology of the Species

    Article • Taxonomy, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  7. Population biology of the porcelain crab Pachycheles laevidactylus Ortmann, 1892 (Anomura: Porcellanidae) in the Southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  8. Unraveling the mating system of the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus siriboia (Decapoda Callichiridae) based on life history traits

    Article • Ethology Ecology & Evolution, September 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  9. A new species of parasitic isopod (Bopyroidea: Ionidae) infesting burrowing shrimp (Axiidea: Callianassidae) in the tropical eastern Pacific

    Article • Zootaxa, June 2023, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  10. 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

  11. Monogamy in the Burrowing Shrimp Axianassa australis Rodrigues & Shimizu, 1992 (Decapoda, Gebiidea, Axianassidae)

    Article • Biological Bulletin, April 2022, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  12. A new Callichirus ghost shrimp species from the south-western Atlantic, long confounded with C. major (Say, 1818) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callichiridae)

    Article • Journal of Natural History, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  13. 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

  14. Burrow use and sexual dimorphism as indicators of the mating system in the symbiotic pea crab Austinixa patagoniensis (Rathbun 1918) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae)

    Article • Marine Ecology, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  15. Inferring the mating system in the burrowing shrimp Lepidophthalmus bocourti (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae) from the social structure and sexual dimorphism

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Departing from an ideal: An asymmetric, bimodal and non‐Equatorial latitudinal gradient of marine diversity in Western Atlantic burrowing shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea)

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2020, Wiley

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  19. Integrative taxonomy reveals hidden species within the western Atlantic Callichirus major s. l. (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callichiridae)

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  20. Spatial-Temporal Distribution of the Burrowing Shrimp Callichirus major (Say, 1818) (Decapoda, Callichiridae) in Preserved Populations of Southeastern Brazil

    Article • Thalassas An International Journal of Marine Sciences, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  21. 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

  22. A new species of Biffarius Manning & Felder, 1991 (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from the intertidal coast of northeastern Brazil

    Article • Zootaxa, April 2020, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  23. 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

  24. Relative growth, sexual maturity and handedness in the ghost shrimp Callichirus major (Decapoda: Callianassidae) from the southwestern Atlantic

    Article • Scientia Marina, June 2019, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  25. La efectividad de una ley de protección al servicio de la conservación de un recurso marino: El ejemplo del camarón fantasma Callichirus major (Decapoda, Callianassidae) de la costa de Brasil

    Article • Iheringia Série Zoologia, January 2019, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  26. Population biology and breeding cycle of the burrowing shrimp Callichirus seilacheri (Decapoda, Callianassidae) from the eastern tropical Pacific

    Article • Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

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

  27. Social structure, sexual dimorphism and relative growth in the ghost shrimp Callichirus seilacheri (Bott, 1955) (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianassidae) from the tropical eastern Pacific

    Article • Marine Biology Research, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  28. Spatial distribution and egg production in squat lobsters (Decapoda: Munididae, Munidopsidae) from the collection of the Museu de Zoologia of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

    Article • Iheringia Série Zoologia, June 2018, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  29. Morphological remarks in the ghost shrimp Callichirus seilacheri (Bott, 1955) (Decapoda, Callianassidae)

    Article • Boletim do Instituto de Pesca, March 2018, Boletim do Instituto de Pesca

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  30. The community of Mata de Limón, central Pacific coast of Costa Rica and the extraction of colonchos Callichirus seilacheri (Bott, 1955) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)

    Article • Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, February 2017, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  31. Insights of the life history in the porcellanid crab Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850) (Crustacea: Anomura: Porcellanidae) from the Southwestern Atlantic coast

    Article • Invertebrate Reproduction & Development, February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  32. Callichirus garthiis a valid species, distinct fromC. seilacheri(Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae)

    Article • Marine Biology Research, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  33. Population distribution, sexual dimorphism, and reproductive parameters in the crab Pinnixa valdiviensis Rathbun, 1907 (Decapoda: Pinnotheridae), a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Callichirus garthi (Retamal, 1975) in the southeastern Pacific

    Article • Journal of Crustacean Biology, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  34. Breeding cycle of the red squat lobsterPleuroncodes monodonH. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda, Muninidae) from deepwater Pacific of Costa Rica

    Article • Marine Ecology, July 2013, Wiley

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  35. A new species of Callianidea H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda, Axiidea, Callianideidae) from the Pacific coast of Central America, with key to the genus

    Article • Zootaxa, June 2013, Magnolia Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  36. Reproductive biology of the ghost shrimpLepidophthalmus bocourti(A. Milne-Edwards, 1870) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae): A tropical species with a seasonal reproduction

    Article • Marine Biology Research, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  37. Population structure and sexual maturity of the calico box crab Hepatus ephiliticus Linnaeus (Brachyura, Hepatidae) from Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

    Article • Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, July 2012, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso

    Dr Nuno Simoes, Dr Patricio Hernáez, Dr. Marcelo Antonio Amaro Pinheiro

  38. Reproductive plasticity in Petrolisthes armatus (Anomura, Porcellanidae): a comparison between a Pacific and an Atlantic population

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  39. Population demography and spatial distribution of the mantis shrimp Squilla biformis (Stomatopoda, Squillidae) from Pacific Costa Rica

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, March 2011, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  40. Sexual maturity and egg production in an unexploited population of the red squat lobster Pleuroncodes monodon (Decapoda, Galatheidae) from Central America

    Article • Fisheries Research, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  41. The abundant-centre hypothesis using porcelain crabs

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, January 2010, Wiley

    Dr J. Antonio Baeza, Dr Patricio Hernáez

  42. Offspring production in three freshwater crab species (Brachyura: Pseudothelphusidae) from the Amazon region and Central America

    Article • Zoologia (Curitiba), January 2010, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  43. Fecundity and effects of bopyrid infestation on egg production in the Caribbean sponge-dwelling snapping shrimp Synalpheus yano (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, November 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  44. Egg production of the burrowing shrimp Callichirus seilacheri (Bott 1955) (Decapoda, Callianassidae) in northern Chile

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, July 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  45. Population biology of the burrowing shrimp Callichirus seilacheri (Decapoda: Callianassidae) in northern Chile

    Article • Revista de Biología Tropical, October 2005, Universidad de Costa Rica

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  46. Fecundidad, volumen del huevo y rendimiento reproductivo de cinco especies de porcelánidos intermareales del norte de Chile (Decapoda, Porcellanidae)

    Article • Investigaciones marinas, January 2003, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez

  47. Producción y rendimiento reproductivo en Petrolisthes granulosus (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae) en diferentes localidades del norte de Chile: Una comparación latitudinal

    Article • Investigaciones marinas, January 2001, SciELO Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica Y Tecnologica (CONICYT)

    Dr Patricio Hernáez