The series is designed to accommodate papers on carcinology in its widest sense that exceed the page limit of the journal Crustaceana . Bullard (Wake Forest U.) compiles the available descriptions of the zoeal (45 species) and megalopal (34 species) stages of anomuran (families: Porcellanidae, Albuneidae, and Hippidae (and brachyuran crabs off the Atlantic coast of the southeastern US state. Because many of the species have their northernmost or southernmost ranges of their distribution off North Carolina, the information is applicable to a significant portion of the east coast of North America. He includes line drawings, and provides identification keys based when possible on external features visible with a dissecting microscope but that do not require dissection. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This guide represents a compilation of the available descriptions of the zoeal and megalopal stages of anomuran and brachyuran crabs of North Carolina, USA. Descriptions and keys for the zoeae of 44 species and the megalopae of 34 species are included.
