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Khorramshahr University of Marine Science and Technology
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3Persian Gulf and Oman Sea Ecological Research Institute, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Abstract
The study on aquatic larval stages backgrounds of ecological and evaluation of their reserves in our offers. This research has been done on morphology and abundance characteristics of larval stage of Xanthidae's family on coastal waters of Hengam Island (The Persian Gulf). Sampling was done by plankton net with 300 μm mesh size by method of diagonal traction from bottom to surface in 6 stations for a year from winter up to autumn 2011. This research is done based on morphological characteristics, such as overall shape and appendages of larvae in the lab, the first zoea larval stages of species Xantho sp and second zoea of Leptodius exaratus (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) were studied and identified. Results showed that the highest and lowest abundance to related to the summer and winter seasons, respectively. A one-way analysis of variance between the different species density in the stations and seasons sampled showed that significant differences between some stations and there are seasons (P
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