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Interspecific variability is amplified by a non-limiting resource in a Dynamic Energy Budget model

Symbiosis increases population size and buffers environmental fluctuations in a physiologically-structured model parameterized for thyasirid bivalves

First record of Alpheus platycheirus Boone, 1927 (Crustacea, Alpheidae) on the northwest coast of Venezuela

*Alpheus platycheirus* Boone, 1927 (Decapoda, Alpheidae) is a snapping shrimp widely distributed in the western Atlantic, from the Gulf of Mexico to eastern Brazil. This shrimp usually inhabits muddy marine bottoms; however, here we record for the …

Dynamic Energy Budget theory predicts smaller energy reserves in thyasirid bivalves that harbour symbionts

Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory describes the ecophysiology of individuals and distinguishes between the biomass of an organism that functions as an energy reserve and as a structure. DEB theory offers a robust framework to infer and contrast …

Composition and abundance of decapod crustaceans in mixed seagrass meadows in the Paraguaná Peninsula, Venezuela

*Thalassia testudinum* and *Halodule wrigthii* are the dominant seagrasses in the Caribbean, being common across shallow shorelines, either as monospecific or as intermixed meadows. Among the macrofauna associated with these beds, crustaceans are …

First record of Dondice parguerensis (Mollusca: Favorinidae) in Venezuela

The presence of the aeolidacean *Dondice parguerensis* Brandon and Cutress, 1985, parasite of the cnidaria *Cassiopea xamachana* Bigelow, 1892 and *Cassiopea frondosa* (Pallas, 1774) is recorded for the first time in Venezuela. It was previously …