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4. Notes on a Lucifer-like Decapod Larva from the West Coast of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

George Brook
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Lecturer on Comparative Embryology in the University of Edinbur
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Whilst examining my “tow-nettings” from the West Coast, I have met with a peculiar Decapod larva, which, so far as I know, is unlike anything previously described. In general appearance it is very like semi-adult forms of Lawifer, having an elongated “neck,” at the tip of which the eyes and antennae are carried. My specimens were obtained from two localities—1st, about half a dozen at about the same stage, from tow-nettings taken in Machrie Bay (west shore of Arran), 17th September 1886; and 2nd, about 20 specimens, some further advanced than those of the previous gathering, which were collected at a depth of 8 to 10 fathoms in the Sound of Mull, 24th August 1887. These were associated with various larval stages of Porcellana, Galathea, and other Decapods.

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Proceedings 1887-88
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1889

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