In most groups, there are further larval stages, including the zoea (pl.

Most hermit crab larvae hatch at the third stage, the zoea.

The book also shows other development stages of these animals (zoea, larva), even odder in shape.

The free-swimming tiny zoea larvae can float and take advantage of water currents.

In many decapods, due to their accelerated development, the zoea is the first larval stage.

There are four larval stages, from zoea to megalopa.

The eggs are held by the female until they hatch; there are five planktonic zoea stages.

This fish mostly feeds upon copepods, amphipods, and zoea.

Decapods, Zoea stage of.

Gnathophausia zoea is a species of lophogastrid crustacean.

'Zoaea', more commonly spelt 'zoea', is a larval stage in crustacean development.

Zoea stage, in life-history of decapods.

These fertilised eggs are then carried on the female's pleopods until they are ready to hatch into zoea larvae.

The larvae pass through three to five zoea stages before moulting into the post-larval glaucothoe stage; this process takes from 25 to 33 days.

Through a series of moults, the young animal then passes through various zoea stages, followed by a megalopa or post-larva.

Eggs hatch into a zoeal stage, which is followed by a second zoea and then a megalopa stage before adulthood.

There are typically 5 or 6 zoea stages in Dendrobranchiata, divided into protozoea and mysis.

The zoea larvae bear "exceptionally long" spines on the carapace, one directed forwards, and two directed backwards.

The larvae pass through five planktonic zoea and one megalopa stages, before settling to the sea floor to molt into the adult form.

The names of these genera have become generalised to cover specific larval stages across wide groups of crustaceans, such as zoea and nauplius.

Prior to hatching, the female moves into shallow marine habitats, releases her eggs and the newly hatched zoea I larvae move into estuaries.

The zoea stage (plural: zoeas or zoeae) is characterised by the use of the thoracic appendages for swimming.

The zoea of most species must find food, but some crabs provide enough yolk in the eggs that the larval stages can continue to live off the yolk.

The young crabs hatch as zoea larvae, and pass through three further zoeal stages and one megalopa before becoming juveniles.

By the third zoea instar, the pereiopods begin to show as small buds, and uropods are present alongside the broad telson.