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Excerpt of decapoda in access databases Crustacea_decapoda.mdb and register 280504.mdb. More data on the specimens is available. The collection contains numerous type specimens. Shrimps, crabs and lobsters (decapods) from Southeast Asia, the Northeast Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea are among the highlights of the Crustacean collections. Curators, including L.B. Holthuis (1941-2008), have been actively involved in these groups since the museum was founded in 1820. During the last two decades research focussed on symbiontic shrimps.