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Larval development of the brush-clawed shore crab Hemigrapsus takanoi Asakura & Watanabe, 2005 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Varunidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Jose M. Landeira Open the ORCID record for Jose M. Landeira [Opens in a new window] ,
Jose A. Cuesta Open the ORCID record for Jose A. Cuesta [Opens in a new window]  and
Yuji Tanaka
Jose M. Landeira*
Affiliation:
Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan Graduate School of Biosphere Science Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Jose A. Cuesta
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (ICMAN-CSIC), Avenida República Saharaui, 2, 11519 Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain
Yuji Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan
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Author for correspondence: Jose M. Landeira, E-mail: jm_landeira@yahoo.es
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Abstract

The brush-clawed shore crab Hemigrapsus takanoi is a native species from the Western Pacific and an invader of the European Atlantic coast from northern Spain to southern Denmark. Despite the increasing concern about its rapid expansion, little is known about the early stages in its life history. In the present study, the larval morphology of H. takanoi is described and illustrated from specimens obtained in the laboratory from its type locality, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Its larval development follows the pattern of Varunidae, that involves five zoeae and one megalopa. The morphological characters of the larvae of H. takanoi are compared with those of the other known Hemigrapsus species of the North Pacific. In addition, to facilitate an early detection of the invasive species of Varunidae inhabiting European Atlantic waters, a summary of the key characters to identify their larval stages is included.

Keywords

BrachyuraDNA barcodingHemigrapsus takanoiinvasive speciesmegalopamorphologytaxonomyzoea
Type
Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 99 , Issue 5 , August 2019 , pp. 1153 - 1164
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2019 

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