JPR Advance Access originally published online on February 16, 2004
Journal of Plankton Research 2004 26(4):387-391; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbh041
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Journal of Plankton Research Vol. 26 No. 4 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Note on the first phyllosoma stages of Palinurellus wieneckii (de Man, 1881) and Puerulus aff. angulatus (Bate, 1888) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Synaxidae and Palinuridae) from New Caledonia
Laboratoire Des Ressources Vivantes Et De Lenvironnement Marin (Lervem), Université De La Nouvellecalédonie, BP 4477, 98847 Nouméa, New Caledonia and 1 National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd, PO Box 14-901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand
* Corresponding Author: coutures{at}univ-nc.nc
We describe the first stage phyllosoma (phyllamphion) larvae of two species taken from the plankton off New Caledonia and which we refer to as Palinurellus wieneckii (de Man, 1881) and Puerulus aff. angulatus (Bate, 1888).