Ambush Site Selection by a Green Bamboo Pit Viper: Relation to Prey Abundance and Comparison between Juveniles and Adults
The extremely thin and leaf-like larvae of spiny and
slipper lobsters are one of the amazing larval forms of marine
creatures and called “phyllosoma”. Even more extraordinary is the
phyllosoma of some species has a very large body with a size as large
as a human adult hand and amongst the largest larvae known for marine
invertebrates. The large size of these giant phyllosomae,
however, do not make them common amongst plankton collection, and
therefore, they are still poorly known. Giant phyllosoma is
now newly recorded off Taiwanese waters. This giant phyllosoma from
Taiwan is for the first time confirmed to be the final stage of the
slipper lobster Parribacus antarcticus by DNA barcoding. A key to
the different phyllosoma stages of this slipper lobster is provided.

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