Zoea
Zoea the European lobster
The Zoea or Zoealarve ( Greek zoon "animal", "living being") is a larval form of the crustaceans (Crustacea), which usually follows the stage of the nauplius larva . It is found in most decapods (Decapoda), here the zoea hatches directly from the egg.
description
The zoea is divided into cephalothorax (head-chest piece) and pleon (abdomen) and, in contrast to the nauplius, which has only one unpaired eye ( nauplius eye ), has a pair of complex eyes . The cephalothorax has several pairs of split legs .
development
The growth takes place through teloblastia , so the number of body segments is increased. With each moult, the segments are attached to the front, starting from the telson bud (the last section of the abdomen).
literature
- Volker Storch, Ulrich Welsch: Kükenthal - Zoological Internship Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8274-1998-9
- Volker Storch, Ulrich Welsch: Short textbook of the zoology spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1399-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erwin J. Hentschel, Günther H. Wagner: Zoological dictionary . 6th edition. Gustav Fischer Verlag Jena, Jena 1996, p. 627 .
Web links
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