. a. Fig. 3. Larval stages of Munida. Third stage, length 5-5 mm. b. Fourth stage, length 8-o mm. c. Fifth stage, length 8-5 mm. persist on the fifth. Simple biramous pleopods are present on the second to fifth abdominal segments. The teeth on the posterior border of the carapace are reduced to only four or five. Fine teeth are now present on the dorso-lateral margin of the proxi- mal portion of the rostrum. The antennal scale carries seventeen plumose hairs and the antennule has many more aesthetes on the terminal segment. The total length of the specimen figured was 8-5 mm.

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