Growth ‘rules’ and the larvae of decapod crustaceans

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Statements that have attempted to express the relationship between the sizes of successive arthropodan instars are examined with reference to published data on larval decapod crustaceans. The conclusions reached are (a) that ‘Brooks's Law’, which simply states that the lengths of successive instars form an exponential series, generally holds good in decapod larvae, (b) that ‘Przibram's Rule’, stating that the weight increase between instars is always by some power of 2, is not supported by the observed length changes, and (c) that Gurney's suggestion that growth factors in decapod larvae do not normally exceed about 1·5 is not applicable to the order as a whole, but may be valid for some sub-groups within it.

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