Resumen de Morphological description of the first zoeal stage of the tropical xanthid crab "Panopeus purpureus" Lockington, 1877 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae)
Joel W. Martin, Antonio Rodríguez, Todd L. Zimmerman
- español
Se describe la primera etapa de zoea del cangrejo tropical "Panopeus purpureus" Lockington, de la familia Xanthidae, obtenida a partir de una hembra ovígera recolectada en un manglar de la costa del Pacífico de Panamá. Ésta es la primera descripción de un estadio larvario del género Panopeus en el Pacífico. Los caracteres morfológicos son similares a los de las zoeas, previamente descritas, de otros Panopeus del Atlántico y las pequeñas diferencias son comentadas.
- English
The tirst zoeal stage of the tropical xanthid crab "Panopeus purpureus" Lockington is described based on larvae from an ovigerous female collected from mangroves on the Pacific coast of Panama. The report is the first description of larvae of any Pacitic member of this common and ecologically important genus Morphological features are similar to those of previously described larvae of Panopeus from the Atlantic, with some exceptions noted.
