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Larval development of the eastern Pacific anomuran crab Porcellana cancrisocialis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) described from laboratory reared material

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 August 2006

Marcelo U. Garcia-Guerrero ,
Antonio Rodríguez  and
Michel E. Hendrickx
Marcelo U. Garcia-Guerrero
Affiliation:
Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82000 México Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Dessarrollo Integral Regional–Instituto Politécnico Nacional, PO Box 280, Guasave, Sinaloa, 81000, Mexico
Antonio Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Avenida República Saharaui, 2, E-11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Michel E. Hendrickx
Affiliation:
Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82000 México
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Abstract

The two zoeal and megalopal stages of Porcellana cancrisocialis are described and illustrated from laboratory-reared larvae. At an average temperature of 25°C, Zoea I of P. cancrisocialis lasted seven days before moulting to Zoea II which, in turn, lasted eight days to reach the megalopa. Larval features of P. cancrisocialis are compared with those of other species of Porcellana. Porcellana cancrisocialis exhibits similar but distinguishable features from those observed in Porcellana sigsbeiana and Porcellana platycheles. This species resembles P. sigsbeiana more than P. platycheles in the setation and aesthetasc pattern of Zoea I and II, but the relationships of these three species are not clear.

Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 86 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 1123 - 1132
Copyright
2006 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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