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Issue: Vol. 3919 No. 2: 17 Feb. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-02-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.7
Page range: 343–361
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 2

The number of zoeal stages in larval development of Nihonotrypaea petalura (Stimpson, 1860) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Callianassidae) from Russian waters of the Sea of Japan

A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Pal’chevskogo Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Pal’chevskogo Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Pal’chevskogo Str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia.
Axiiidea Callianassidae larva zoea Sea of Japan

Abstract

Zoeal stages of the mud shrimp Nihonotrypaea petalura (Stimpson, 1860) (Decapoda: Axiiidea: Callianassidae) inhabiting Peter the Great Bay (Sea of Japan) is described and illustrated from the larvae reared in the laboratory individually. The development included seven zoeal stages before molting to the megalopa. At 22–23°C the first megalopa was attained 26 days after hatching. A range of the number of zoeal stages in the family Callianassidae is analyzed. The possibility of variation of the number of zoeal stages of burrowing shrimps in different populations of the same species and/or under different laboratory conditions is discussed.