CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF SYNALPHEUS PECTINIGER, S. MINUS AND S. FRITZMUELLERI (DECAPODA, ALPHEIDAE)

Author

• JOANNE G. WEISE

Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1975

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Abstract

Ovigerous females of Synalpheus fritzmuelleri, S . minu s , and S. pectiniger were taken from Phragmatopoma (wormrock) colonies and sponges offshore from Bear Cut, Miami and at Boca Raton and Deerfield Beach, Florida. First stage zoeal forms were obtained and different foods, temperatures, and antibiotics were utilized in attempts to rear the larvae to metamorphosis. All three zoeal forms hatched with a large supply of yolk and molted within two hours of hatching. S. fritzmuelleri larvae were translucent with red chromatophores scattered over the carapace and abdominal somites. All three forms differed in size; S. fritzmuelleri was smallest and S. minus largest. S. minus died in the fourth stage, while both S. pectiniger and S. fritzmuelleri survived until the fifth stage. Pleopod buds were absent from all larval stages. All zoeae obtained were described, illustrated, and compared to each other.

Extent

122 p.

Comments

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.

Recommended Citation

WEISE, JOANNE G., "CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LARVAL DEVELOPMENT OF SYNALPHEUS PECTINIGER, S. MINUS AND S. FRITZMUELLERI (DECAPODA, ALPHEIDAE)" (1975). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 346.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/346

Identifier

FADT13764

Format

pdf