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Studies on decapod crustacea from the Indian River region of Florida. II. Megalobrachium soriatum (Say, 1818): The larval development under laboratory culture (Crustacea: Decapoda; Porcellanidae)

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Date Issued:
1973
Title: Studies on decapod crustacea from the Indian River region of Florida. II. Megalobrachium soriatum (Say, 1818): The larval development under laboratory culture (Crustacea: Decapoda; Porcellanidae).
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Name(s): Gore, R. H., creator
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Issuance: single unit
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Extent: 21 p.
Physical Description: pdf
Language(s): English
Identifier: 3174417 (digitool), FADT3174417 (IID), fau:5795 (fedora)
Note(s): The larval development of Megalobrachium soriatum (Say, 1818), a shallow-water western Atlantic porcellanid crab, is completely described and illustrated. Megalobrachium soria tum hatches as a prezoeal stage of less than 1 day's duration, and then molts through two subsequent zoeal stages of about 6 days' duration each, before attaining megalopal stage.
This manuscript is available at http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/bms and may be cited as: Gore, R. H. (1973).Studies on decapod crustacea from the Indian River region of Florida. II. Megalobrachium soriatum(Say, 1818): The larval development under laboratory culture (Crustacea: Decapoda; Porcellanidae).Bulletin of Marine Science, 23(4), 837-856.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #9.
Subject(s): Decapoda (Crustacea)
Porcelain crabs
Species
Larvae
Animal experimentation
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3174417
Restrictions on Access: ©1973 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
Host Institution: FAU