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Larval development - Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards)

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Title Larval development - Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards)
 
Creator Muthu, M S
Pillai, N N
George, K V
 
Subject Eggs and Larvae
Prawn and Prawn fisheries
 
Description The complete larval development of Metapenaeus affinis was studied by rearing them in the labor-toy
at Narakkal. At the rearing temperature of 25.2° C-27.0° C the embryo takes 15 to 17 hours to hatch out; the
najplius transforms into protozoea I 42 to 56 hours after it hatches out of the egg, the protozoea stage lasts
for 4 to 8 days and the mysis I takes 6 to 9 days to transform into postlarva I. Complete larval development
from egg stage to postlarva I takes 14 to 23 days. 6 nauplius substages, 3 protozoea substages, 5 mysis
substages and 2 intermediate stages were observed during the course of development. All the larval substages
are described and illustrated and compared with the earlier descriptions of this species.
 
Publisher CMFRI
 
Date 1979
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/668/1/Bulletin_No_28-6.pdf
Muthu, M S and Pillai, N N and George, K V (1979) Larval development - Metapenaeus affinis (H. Milne Edwards). CMFRI Bulletin, 28. pp. 40-49.