TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-description of Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Grapsoidea: Varunidae) zoeal development using confocal laser scanning microscopy
AU - Kamanli, Seyit
AU - Morritt, David
AU - Ball, Alex
AU - Goral, Tomasz
AU - Clark, Paul
PY - 2018/10/29
Y1 - 2018/10/29
N2 - A number of authors have described the zoeal development of the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853, while some of these studies only recognised 5 zoeal stages, two of them described six. The present study re-examined the zoeal stages of E. sinensis from laboratory-reared material using confocal laser scanning microscopy and visualised the images using the open-source software programmes ImageJ and Drishti. From these images 6 zoeal stages were re-described and compared with all previous larval descriptions of the Chinese mitten crab. Comments on the variation of some setal characters are also described in zoeal stages IV−VI.
AB - A number of authors have described the zoeal development of the Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853, while some of these studies only recognised 5 zoeal stages, two of them described six. The present study re-examined the zoeal stages of E. sinensis from laboratory-reared material using confocal laser scanning microscopy and visualised the images using the open-source software programmes ImageJ and Drishti. From these images 6 zoeal stages were re-described and compared with all previous larval descriptions of the Chinese mitten crab. Comments on the variation of some setal characters are also described in zoeal stages IV−VI.
U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.4507.1.1
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4507.1.1
M3 - Article
VL - 4507
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 1
ER -