抄録
Of scyllarine phyllosoma larvae collected in the western North Pacific, a larva with a large
body length (28.1 mm) for a subfinal stage and having a large kidney-shaped cephalic shield
was selected. Mitochondrial 16S rDNA and COI sequence analyses indicated this larva to
belong to the genus Galearctus but failed to identify species. We tentatively designated the
species of this larva as Galearctus sp-A.