When a crab first hatches from its egg, the stage shown in the additional image, it is known as a zoea. At this point in its development, it doesn’t have a hard shell and doesn’t resemble an adult ...

Responses of digestive enzyme profiles in newly-hatched (Zoea I) larvae of the mud crab Scylla serrata to intermittent food availability and food deprivation. Seasonal expressions of nerve growth ...