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

• 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

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...