JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 12 | NUMBER 2 | PAGES 283-293 | 1990
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Developmental rates of the copepods Calanus australisand Calanoides carinatus in the laboratory, with discussion of methods used for calculation of development time
1Zoology Department, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700 2Sea Fisheries Research Institute Private Bag X2, Roggebaai 8012, South Africa
Received on November 30, 1988; accepted on October 11, 1989
The copepods Calanus australis and Calanoides carinatus developed from egg to adult in 20.3 and 18.3 days respectively at 15.5°C and 16.0 and 12.0 days at 19.5°C. For both species the duration of the first two naupliar stages was short, <1 day. The third naupliar stage was prolonged in C.australis but short in C. carinatus. Isochronal development was approximated from fourth nauplius through third copepodite; fourth and fifth copepodite stages were relatively long. Only female C.australis were produced; 60% of the C.carinatus were female. Equiproportional development was found for C.carinatus but not for C.australis. For both species the variance in stage duration was established at the third nauplius then remained unchanged through the older stages. In calculating developmental rates several commonly used methods were compared. The method of ‘first appearance of an individual of a given stage’ and ‘mean time of appearance of a stage’ both yielded estimates of development time that were 10–15% faster than the more commonly used method of ‘median development time’. We suggest that all future work on developmental rates of copepods should use a standardized method for the calculation of stage-specific developmental rates and that ‘median development time’ be the method of choice.
3Present address: Marine Sciences Research Center, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA
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