Collected reprints: Abstract 3641

Collected reprints

Abstract

Vincx, M.; Heip, C. (1979). Larval development and biology of Canuella perplexa T. and A. Scott, 1893 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida). Cah. Biol. Mar. 20: 281-299

Canuella perplexa T. and A. Scott, 1893 is an harpacticoid copepod belonging to the family Canuellidae of the primitive suborder Polyarthra (Lang, 1948). It is often a dominant species in meiobenthic communities of the northern hemisphere. The biology (propulsion, feeding behaviour, precopulatory behaviour, and hatching) and larval development of this species were examined on animals reared in the laboratory. Characters of the nauplius which were considered by Lang (1948) to be diagnostic of the Polyarthra will have to be reexamined in the light of our results on Canuella perplexa. The post-embryonic stages of the Cannuellidae are morphologically different from the larval stages of the also primitive Longipediidae.

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