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The larvae of the British species of Spirontocaris and their relation to Thor (Crustacea Decapoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Marie V. Lebour
Marie V. Lebour
Affiliation:
Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory
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The general larval characters of the genus Spirontocaris are summarized by Gurney (1937b), but since his paper was written there have been published descriptions of S. spinus var. lilljeborgi (see Lebour, 1937) and of S. pusiola (see Bull, 1938). The four British Columbian species described by Needler (1933) must also be taken into consideration. With our present knowledge of all these species the description must be slightly modified. We now know the larvae of all the British species of this genus with the exception of the typical form of S. spinus. The specimen from which the larvae were hatched was intermediate between the typical S. spinus and the var. lilljeborgi and was regarded as the latter. The following species are British: S. polaris, S. spinus and its var. lilljeborgi, S. gaimardi, S. pusiola, S. occulta and S. cranchi. S. polaris is a northern form, the only British records being from the Shetlands. It has an abbreviated development, described by Stephensen (1912b, 1916, 1935).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , August 1940 , pp. 505 - 514
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1940

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References

LITERATURE

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