The genus Uca (fiddler crabs) includes both estuarine and coastal species, the zoeae of which must travel varying distances to reach the sea. Rapid seaward transport following hatching may be ...

The larval crabs will live on ocean plankton, molting through several stages before acquiring a shell of their own and coming back to land. Hermit crabs don’t breed well in captivity ...

If you live on The Internet, you’ve likely heard about carcinization: a kind of convergent evolution that’s seen a ...

Another study examined the dietary effects of intensively reared zoeae (larval crustaceans) on the survival and growth of paralarvae of the East Asian common octopus, Octopus sinensis. The ...

Larval Morphology of a Recently Recognized Barnacle, Chthamalus neglectus (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Chthamalidae), from Hong Kong Larval Morphology of a Recently ...

Scientists believe the small crab boarded the research vessel from a plastic bag lifted from the seabed during the coral sampling expedition.

The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have even been international smuggling attempts of its larvae. Commercially-bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild ...

FEEDING: Small larvae begin feeding on unicellular algae, planktonic animals, and small crustaceans. As they grow, their diet shifts nearly exclusively to copepods (small crustaceans). THREATS: ...

FEEDING: Adult hitch are open-water feeders that almost exclusively eat Daphnia — small, planktonic crustaceans known as “water fleas.” Juveniles feed primarily on the larvae and pupae of chironomid ...