Table 1 Number of shrimps and crabs captured per species in the impacted and control areas in the Itacaiúnas and Parauapebas basins in the Carajás mosaic (Brazil) during the rainy (May) and dry seasons (November).

From: Composition of the freshwater decapod crustacean communities in an area of mining in Brazilian Amazonia and the variation related to environmental parameters

Species

Season

Number of specimens collected in the:

Impacted areas

Control areas

Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862)

Rainy

6

15

Dry

1

13

Macrobrachium brasiliense

(Heller, 1862)

Rainy

9

23

Dry

32

21

Macrobrachium jelskii

(Miers, 1877)

Rainy

33

44

Dry

7

33

Macrobrachium nattereri

(Heller, 1862)

Rainy

0

1

Dry

0

0

Macrobrachium surinamicum

Holthuis, 1948

Rainy

8

12

Dry

32

9

Macrobrachium sp.

Bate, 1868

Rainy

28

56

Dry

15

28

Sylviocarcinus devillei

H. Milne-Edwards, 1853

Rainy

10

13

Dry

6

7

Sylviocarcinus pictus

(H. Milne-Edwards 1853)

Rainy

48

39

Dry

13

34

Valdivia serrata

White, 1847

Rainy

1

4

Dry

5

0

Fredius reflexifrons

(Ortmann, 1897)

Rainy

0

0

Dry

1

0