Definitions

Mysis stage

• Larval stage in penaeoidean development equivalent to zoeal stage of Nephropoidea.
  (syn. schizopod larva) [McLaughlin, 1980]
• Post-cypris larval stage in ontogeny of most crustaceans, characterized by presence of biramous limbs on all thoracic somites.
  (syn. schizopod larva) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• The third in a series of free-swimming larval stages of penaeid shrimps. [Bliss, 1982]

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