Definitions
Postlarva
- Final larval or "preadult" stage; juvenile stage that resembles a miniature adult but is not sexually mature. [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
- (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Last of basically five larval stages (nauplius, metanauplius, protozoea, zoea, postlarva). Characterized by initial appearance of adult characters and, in shrimp-like (natantian) decopod, by pleopodal locomotion. According to group, this stage may be termed glaucothoe, grimothea, mastigopus, megalopa, nisto, parva, or pseudibaccus. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
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Crustacea Glossary. Crustacea Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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