LIFE HISTORY STUDIES ON SOUTH AFRICAN ECHINOIDS (ECHINODERMATA)

1 January 1971

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Vol. 39 (3) , 321-337
https://doi.org/10.1080/00359197109519121

Abstract

A description of the laboratory rearing of Parechinus angulosus (Leske) larvae is given. The larvae are described from samples taken at intervals during the larval life history. At 15°C in the presence of autotrophic flagellates and diatoms as food, larval metamorphosis occurred 56 days after fertilization. Metamorphosis could be delayed at least eleven days in the absence of a suitable substrate.

Keywords

LIFE HISTORY
DIATOMS
LARVAE
AUTOTROPHIC
FERTILIZATION
AFRICAN ECHINOIDS
HISTORY STUDIES
SOUTH AFRICAN

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Handbook of the echinoderms of the British Isles
Published by Biodiversity Heritage Library ,1927
Studies of the development and larval forms of echinoderms, by Dr. Th. Mortensen.
Published by Smithsonian Institution ,1921