Journal
ZOOTAXA
Volume 5099, Issue 5, Pages 501-526Publisher
MAGNOLIA PRESS
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.5.1
Keywords
Larval morphology; Crustaceans; Zoeas; Cleaner shrimp; Decapodite; Caridea
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Funding
- project PLANTROF [MAR-01.04.02-FEAMP-0001]
- European Union
- Integrated Programme of SR&TD Smart Valorization of Endogenous Marine Biological Resources Under a Changing Cli-mate, Portugal [Centro-01-0145-FEDER-000018]
- Centro 2020 programme, Portugal 2020, Portugal
- European Union through the European Regional Development Fund
- MAR2020
- Portugal2020
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This study describes the larval development of Lysmata amboinensis and compares its morphological features with other species of the genus Lysmata for which larval stage descriptions are available.
Complete larval morphological descriptions are currently only known for three of the 48 species of genus Lysmata. The present study describes and illustrates the larval development of Lysmata amboinensis (De Man) reared under laboratory conditions. Lysmata amboinensis larval development is composed by a total of ten zoea and a decapodite stage. The first zoeal stage larvae presents sessile eyes, a carapace with a pterigostomial spine and anterio-ventral marginal denticles, a long, slender, and pointed rostrum, an antennal exopod terminally articled, a pleon with five somites, the fifth one bearing a pair of dorso-lateral spines on the posterior margin, and a triangular shaped telson with 7+7 posterior processes. The decapodite resembles a smaller adult and has extremely long antennas (more than twice the total length of the decapodite), the first two pair of pereiopods with chela, first four pairs of pereiopods with reduced and entire exopods, and fully developed pleopods. The morphological features of L. amboinensis are compared with those currently available for the larval stage of the genus Lysmata.
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