• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.257-264
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• 1991

The first zoea of Pinnotheres sinensis showed the characteristics which were correspond well with those of Pinnotheres zoeae ; No carapace spines, endopodites of maxillule and maxilla with 0.4, 1.2(3) setation and endopodite of second maxilliped with 0.4 setation. However, the setations of the basal and coxal endites of the maxillule and maxilla was different from those of Muraoka and Konishi (1977), Konishi(1983).The host of adult crab was Tapes, not mytilus . Thus, there was a need for detailed description of the Korean crab of Pinnotheres sinensis symbiotic with Tapes.