Asynchronous Hatching and Extended Parental Care in Aegla schmitti (Decapoda, Anomura)
AUTOR(ES)
Adam, Carolina de Lima, Marochi, Murilo, Lacerda, Mariana, Trevisan, Andre, Masunari, Setuko
FONTE
Braz. arch. biol. technol.
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
14/06/2018
RESUMO
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to describe the behavior of newly-hatched juveniles and maternal care in Aegla schmitti. The experiment was conducted using seven ovigerous females with eggs at different stages of embryonic development and 12 eggs that had been placed in a separate aquarium. We observed asynchronous hatching in all females, with a mean of 66 hatched juveniles per female. The females also exhibited extended maternal care, allowing the juveniles to remain inside their abdominal chamber or on other parts of their body in the first few days after hatching. The juveniles that hatched in a separate aquarium fed on the remaining eggs, despite food being available. The incubation period and number of hatched eggs are highly variable between species with direct development, with no clear pattern being evident. However, asynchrony in hatching time is apparently common among freshwater anomurans, most likely due to the environmental conditions in which they live. Parental care is an important trait for crustaceans that live in osmotically unfavorable environments, such as freshwater, increasing the survival rate of juveniles.
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