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Larval development of the barnacle Ibla cumingi (Cirripedia: Pendunculata: Iblidae) reared in the laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2005

Yan Yan
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Station at Daya Bay, LED, The Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology of Guangdong Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China
Chen Haoru
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Station at Daya Bay, LED, The Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology of Guangdong Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China
Huang Liangmin
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Station at Daya Bay, LED, The Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology of Guangdong Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China
Sun Lihua
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Station at Daya Bay, LED, The Key Laboratory of Applied Marine Biology of Guangdong Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 164 West Xingang Road, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China

Abstract

Larvae of Ibla cumingi from Daya Bay, China were cultured in the laboratory. Larval development includes six naupliar stages and a non-feeding cypris stage following the ground patterns of cirripeds. Larvae reached the cypris stage in nine days at ∼25°C after hatching. Morphological features including the cephalic shield, frontal horns, labrum, abdominal process, antennules, antennae and mandibles in all nauplii were described and illustrated using light microscopy. A full morphological description of cyprid larvae was provided using scanning electron microscopy. Attempts were made to compare the difference between the larval development model of I. cumingi and that of Ibla species.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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