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The Eggs and Newly Hatched Larva of Typton spongicola O. G. Costa.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Marie V. Lebour
Affiliation:
Naturalist at the Plymouth Laboratory.

Extract

At the end of June, 1924, a female of Typton spongicola, dredged by the Salpa, bearing eggs, was taken from the sponge Desmacidon fruticosus in which it lives, and given to me alive. This was placed in a Plunger Jar in the Laboratory, and on July 8th most of the eggs hatched out. The larvæ did not live long, and never sloughed the skin; but several were preserved, and the following notes on these are of interest, as very little is known of the development in the Pontoniinæ to which subfamily of the Palaemonidee in the Caridea, Typton belongs (Gurney, 1925). The female continued to live for some months at the bottom of the Plunger Jar without any sponge shelter. It ate any dead plankton, and was a useful scavenger. This is interesting, as its ordinary food is the Desmacidon in which it lives (Hunt, 1923).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1925

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