• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.51-65
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• 1999

Gaillardiellus orientalis (Odhner, 1925) has been reared in the laboratory, form hatching to the first young crab stage at $25^{\circ}C$. The four zoeal stages and one megalopal stage are described and illustrated in detail. Within the subfamily Actaeinae, the zoea of G. orientalis differs from the other known zoeae in the characteristics of the antenna and the telson.