JPR Advance Access originally published online on August 3, 2004
Journal of Plankton Research 2004 26(10):1175-1182; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbh107
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Journal of Plankton Research Vol. 26 No. 10 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Larval development of Hexapanopeus caribbaeus (Stimpson, 1871) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Xanthoidea, Panopeidae) reared under laboratory conditions
1 Laboratório Crustáceos Decápodos, Departamento Oceanografia, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, C. Postal 474, Rio Grande, CEP 96201-900, RS, Brasil and 2 Laboratório Zoologia Crustacea Decapoda, Departamento Ciências Morfo-Biológicas, Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, C. Postal 474, Rio Grande, CEP 96201-900, RS, Brasil
* Corresponding Author: pgobrony{at}furg.br
Received on April 2, 2003; accepted on June 3, 2004; published online August 3, 2004
The genus Hexapanopeus Rathbun, 1898 contains eight species, of which three are found in the Brazilian coast. The larval development of two of these species has already been studied in the laboratory. This article describes in detail the morphology of the complete larval stages of Hexapanopeus caribbaeus reared under laboratory conditions, and the morphology is compared with that of the larvae of the other species of the same genus.