Effect of salinity on the egg hatching and early larvae of horseshoe crab Tachypleus gigas (muller, 1785) in laboratory culture

Tachypleus gigas (Muller) the Southeast Asian horseshoe crab, is found to nest on sandy beaches in Malaysia, thus biological information about survival of this living fossil become crucial. Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the effect of salinity on duration to maturation and ha...

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Main Authors: Kasim, Zaleha, Izyan, Hazwani, H., Siti Hamidah, Yunus, Kamaruzzaman, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/21828/
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