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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2005

Marcelo U. García-Guerrero ,
José A. Cuesta ,
Michel E. Hendrickx  and
Antonio Rodríguez
Marcelo U. García-Guerrero
Affiliation:
Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82000 Mexico, E-mail: marcelo@ola.icmyl.unam.mx
José A. Cuesta
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Avenida República Saharaui, 2, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain, E-mail: jose.cuesta@icman.csic.es; antonio.rodriguez@icman.csic.es
Michel E. Hendrickx
Affiliation:
Unidad Académica Mazatlán, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, UNAM, PO Box 811, Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 82000 Mexico, E-mail: marcelo@ola.icmyl.unam.mx
Antonio Rodríguez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Avenida República Saharaui, 2, 11510 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain, E-mail: jose.cuesta@icman.csic.es; antonio.rodriguez@icman.csic.es
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Abstract

The two zoeal and the megalopal stages of Petrolisthes robsonae, are described and illustrated from laboratory-reared larvae. Larval features are compared with those previously described for other species of Petrolisthes in the eastern Pacific. Larvae of P. robsonae exhibit similar but not identical features to those seen in other Petrolisthes species. A number of similarities are found with P. zacae while main differences are found with P. granulosus,P. platymerus and P. laevigatus. Differences with these species are related to the setation of maxilla and maxillule and the rows of denticles in carapace spines.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 339 - 349
Copyright
2005 Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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