セミエビ科フィロソーマ幼生の同定．1. 概論

抄録

Morphological species identification of the phyllosoma larvae of spiny and slipper lobsters has been considerably difficult. Long planktonic period of phyllosoma larvae has made larval rearing extremely difficult. Many phyllosoma larvae in plankton samples described previously were not based on correct species identity. In this series of taxonomic notes, we introduce the results of species identification of scyllarid phyllosoma larvae based on DNA barcoding and molecular phylogenetic analyses. In this general remark, morphological characteristics of scyllarid phyllosoma different from palinurid phyllosoma and those among scyllarid lobster subfamilies are briefly summarized.