Crustacean larvae#Zoea

The zoea or Zoealarve (Greek zoon, " animal ", " living creature ") is a larval form of crustaceans ( Crustacea), which usually connects to the stage of Naupliuslarve. It occurs in most decapods ( Decapoda ), here the Zoea hatches directly from the egg.

Description

The zoea is divided into cephalothorax (head chest piece ) and Pleon (abdomen) and has unlike the nauplius, which only has an unpaired eye ( Naupliusauge ), a pair of compound eyes. The cephalothorax bears several pairs gap legs.

Development

Growth occurs by Teloblastie, so it is the number of segments of the body increases. The segments of the Telsonknospe be (the last abdominal segment ) on the front added starting at each molt.