Development of external sexual characters of deep sea Bythocaris shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippolytidae)

The development of sex-specific characters is described for the deep sea North Atlantic/Arctic shrimp genus Bythocaris . A number of species were examined in the collections of Russian institutions including B. biruli , B. curvirostris , B. irene , B. leucopis and B. payeri . The pattern of size-spe...

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Published in:Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Main Authors: Sokolov, Vassily I., Spiridonov, Vassily A.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2006
Subjects:
Aquatic Science
Arctic
Biruli
Atlantic Arctic
Atlantic-Arctic
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315406013208
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0025315406013208
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Summary:The development of sex-specific characters is described for the deep sea North Atlantic/Arctic shrimp genus Bythocaris . A number of species were examined in the collections of Russian institutions including B. biruli , B. curvirostris , B. irene , B. leucopis and B. payeri . The pattern of size-specific variation in the masculine characters, i.e. the development of the modified appendix interna on the endopodite of the first pleopod and the appendix masculina do not indicate the presence of sex change (protandric hermaphroditism) in the life history.

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