| Anthony Rice has used morphology of zoea to develop phylogenies of subsets of decapods that provides a different insight into relationships. |
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| The carapace of a zoea covers the head and the forward portion of the thorax. |
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| The purpose of this study was to examine and identify Brachyuran zoea of the San Francisco Bay Estuary, then to generate a dichotomous key. |
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| Most metamorphosing malacostracans have a nauplius larva, but in many species eggs hatch into zoea larvae. |
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| The crab zoea eventually changes into a megalops, which resembles a small crab with its tail extended behind it. |
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| The larval stage, known as the zoea, is a minute transparent organism with a legless, rounded body, that swims and feeds in the plankton. |
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| The eggs hatch into larvae called zoea that spend about a month in the ocean as tiny swimming plankton. |
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| After hatching they can be classified as one of four basic larval types, partly by their mode of locomotion: nauplius, protozoea, zoea, and postlarva. |
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| In many decapods, due to their accelerated development, the zoea is the first larval stage. |
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| In some cases, the zoea stage is followed by the mysis stage, and in others, by the megalopa stage, depending on the crustacean group involved. |
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| Length of time from zoea I to megalopa varied from 20 to 31 days. |
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| Making any women wearing Charbel ZoEa Couture feel like she is the only woman. |
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| Zoea larvae swim with their thoracic appendages, as opposed to nauplii, which use cephalic appendages, and megalopa, which use abdominal appendages for swimming. |
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