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Issue: Vol. 4507 No. 1: 29 Oct. 2018
Type: Monograph
Published: 2018-10-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4507.1.1
Page range: 1–67
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Re-description of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Grapsoidea: Varunidae) zoeal development using confocal laser scanning microscopy

School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. Imaging and Analysis Centre, Core Research Laboratories, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. Department of Biology, Faculty of Art and Science, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur 15030 Turkey.
School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
Imaging and Analysis Centre, Core Research Laboratories, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Imaging and Analysis Centre, Core Research Laboratories, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. Zespół ds. Infrastruktury, Centrum Nowych Technologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Ul. Banacha 2c, p. 04.46, 02-097 Warszawa, Poland.
Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Crustacea Brachyura Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis 3D imaging Drishti redescription of zoeal stages

Abstract

A number of authors have described the zoeal development of the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853, while some of these studies only recognised 5 zoeal stages, two of them described six. The present study re-examined the zoeal stages of E. sinensis from laboratory-reared material using confocal laser scanning microscopy and visualised the images using the open-source software programmes ImageJ and Drishti. From these images 6 zoeal stages were re-described and compared with all previous larval descriptions of the Chinese mitten crab. Comments on the variation of some setal characters are also described in zoeal stages IV−VI.

 

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