Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Breeding Characters of Palaemonetes Varians (Leach) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae)

The Breeding Characters of Palaemonetes Varians (Leach) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae) THE BREEDING CHARACTERS OF PALAEMONETES VARIANS (LEACH) (DECAPODA, PALAEMONIDAE) BY L. J. ANTHEUNISSE, N. P. VAN DEN HOVEN Department of Zoology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and D. J. JEFFERIES Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool, England 1) During an ecological study of moulting and growth in Palaemonete.r varian-f (Leach, 1814) carried out at the University of Liverpool (cf. Jefferies, 1964) and as a start of endocrinological studies of internal breeding factors in the same species done at the Free University, Amsterdam, the relative lengths of the berried ( egg-carrying ) intermoult and normal intermoult periods were examined together with the details of the breeding dress. This information was obtained by following the individual moulting histories of female specimens of Palaemonetes variants (collected from sites near Liverpool and from the Dutch North Sea island of Schiermonnikoog) maintained in separate brackish water aquaria in the laboratory at room temperature (Free University, Amsterdam) and under natural thermal conditions (University of Liverpool). The animals were easy to keep with a diet of tubificid worms, green algae (Ulva) and dry fish feed. A daily inspection of the aquaria for the presence of exuvia provided us with the durations of the inter- moult http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crustaceana Brill

The Breeding Characters of Palaemonetes Varians (Leach) (Decapoda, Palaemonidae)

Antheunisse, L.J.; Van Den Hoven, N.P.; Jefferies, D.J.
Crustaceana , Volume 14 (3): 259 – Jan 1, 1968
Download PDF
12 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/the-breeding-characters-of-palaemonetes-varians-leach-decapoda-1DFIbCHnD1

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1968 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0011-216x
eISSN
1568-5403
DOI
10.1163/156854068X00845
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

THE BREEDING CHARACTERS OF PALAEMONETES VARIANS (LEACH) (DECAPODA, PALAEMONIDAE) BY L. J. ANTHEUNISSE, N. P. VAN DEN HOVEN Department of Zoology, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and D. J. JEFFERIES Department of Zoology, University of Liverpool, England 1) During an ecological study of moulting and growth in Palaemonete.r varian-f (Leach, 1814) carried out at the University of Liverpool (cf. Jefferies, 1964) and as a start of endocrinological studies of internal breeding factors in the same species done at the Free University, Amsterdam, the relative lengths of the berried ( egg-carrying ) intermoult and normal intermoult periods were examined together with the details of the breeding dress. This information was obtained by following the individual moulting histories of female specimens of Palaemonetes variants (collected from sites near Liverpool and from the Dutch North Sea island of Schiermonnikoog) maintained in separate brackish water aquaria in the laboratory at room temperature (Free University, Amsterdam) and under natural thermal conditions (University of Liverpool). The animals were easy to keep with a diet of tubificid worms, green algae (Ulva) and dry fish feed. A daily inspection of the aquaria for the presence of exuvia provided us with the durations of the inter- moult

Journal

Crustaceana – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1968

There are no references for this article.