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Issue: Vol. 3527 No. 1: 26 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3527.1.8
Page range: 83–87
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 1

First stage larva of the lobster shrimp Allaxius princeps (Boas, 1880) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae) obtained in the laboratory

A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Pal’chevskogo Street, 690059, Vladivostok, Russia
A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 17 Pal’chevskogo Street, 690059, Vladivostok, Russia
Crustacea Axiidea Axiidae Allaxius larva zoea Peter the Great Bay Sea of Japan

Abstract

First stage larva of the lobster shrimp Allaxius princeps (Boas, 1880) (Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae) obtained from theovigerous female is described and illustrated for the first time. It is the first description of the larva of lobster shrimp fromWest Pacific. Zoea I of A. princeps is characterized by the presence of four dorsal spines on the pleonal somites 2–5 andby the shape of the telson with a deep cleft but without a median process. Under these characters, zoea I of A. princeps is similar to the first larva of Axiopsis serratifrons.

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