Definitions

Phyllosoma

• Early schizopod larval stage in ontogeny of palinurid and scyllarid lobsters. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Larval stage in development of palinuroidean decapods. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• Pelagic larva of Palinura, develops eventually into peurulus stage before settlement. [Poore, 2004]
• Term given to the larval (zoeal) stages of panulirid decapods. [Ingle, 1992]
• The free-swimming larval stage of a spiny, or rock, lobster; corresponds in some ways to the protozoel stage and in other ways to the mysis stage of a penaid shrimp. [Bliss, 1982]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Zoea. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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