| Literature DB >> 27081332 |
María José Vela1, Juan Ignacio González-Gordillo1.
Abstract
For most of the family Porcellanidae, which comprises 283 species, larval development remains to be described. Full development has been only described for 52 species, while part of the larval cycle has been described for 45 species. The importance of knowing the complete larval development of a species goes beyond allowing the identification of larval specimens collected in the plankton. Morphological larval data also constitute a support to cladistic techniques used in the establishment of the phylogenetic status (see Hiller et al. 2006, Marco-Herrero et al. 2013). Nevertheless, the literature on the larval development of this family is old and widely dispersed and in many cases it is difficult to collect the available information on a particular taxon. Towards the aim of facilitating future research, all information available on the larval development of porcellanids has been compiled. Following the taxonomic checklist of Porcellanidae proposed by Osawa and McLaughlin (2010), a checklist has been prepared that reflects the current knowledge about larval development of the group including larval stages and the method used to obtain the larvae, together with references. Those species for which the recognised names have been changed according to Osawa and McLaughlin (2010) are indicated.Entities:
Keywords: Anomura; Checklist; larval development; megalopa; zoea
Year: 2016 PMID: 27081332 PMCID: PMC4820091 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.564.7018
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Zookeys ISSN: 1313-2970 Impact factor: 1.546
Figure 3.State of current knowledge of larval development of , grouped by genus. Shown in orange is the percentage of species for which larval development has been completely described. Shown in grey is the percentage of species for which only some of the larval stages have been described (left-hand scale). The total number of species per genus is also represented with a solid blue line (right-hand scale).