The Brazilian Crustacean Society (SBC) was founded on February 10, 1982, during the IX Brazilian Congress of Zoology, held at the Institute of Biosciences of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
    The first statute of the Society was approved at an assembly held during the meeting of Carcinologists on February 2, 1983, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Since then, SBC has been under the direction of eminent Brazilian carcinologists, including Dr. Godofredo C. Genofre (who first presided the society in 1982 in São Paulo), Dr. Ludwig Buckup (Rio Grande do Sul), Dr. Jayme de Loyola e Silva (Paraná), Dr. Fernando D'Incao (Rio Grande do Sul), Dr. Sérgio LS Bueno (São Paulo), Dr. Fernando LM Mantelatto (São Paulo), Dr. Maria Lucia Negreiros Fransozo (São Paulo), Dr. Paula Beatriz de Araujo (Porto Alegre), Dr. Sérgio Schwarz da Rocha (UFRB, Cruz das Almas, BA) and currently chaired by Dr. William Santana (Universidade Sagrado Coração, Bauru, SP).
     The Brazilian Crustacean Society is a non-profit, exclusively scientific-cultural, non-governmental entity. This association is responsible for the scientific magazine Nauplius, whose objective is to publish scientific articles under the most varied aspects of crustacean biology. His area of ​​activity involves research results from Brazil and abroad.
The current status establishes the following objectives for the Society:
  • To bring together people interested in developing research on crustaceans;
  • Encourage scientific research in the field of carcinology;
  • Promote studies of fauna of national carcinology;
  • Represent the community of Brazilian carcinologists nationally and internationally;
  • Promote and hold regional and national meetings;
  • To increase the exchange of information on the progress of carcinological research in Brazil.