Definitions

Megalopa

• A larva with setose pleopods, used for swimming, on some or all abdominal segments. [Ingle, 1983]
• First postlarval stage in development of many Eucarida. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• First postlarval stage in ontogeny of crabs, not developed in macruran decapods or other crustaceans.
  (syn. megalops stage) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Term often used to refer to the first postlarval stage in the Amphionidacea, Caridea, and Brachyura. [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
• Terminal larval stage in Brachyura and Anomura. [Poore, 2004]
• The postlarval stage of a brachyuran crab. [Bliss, 1982]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Postlarva. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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