Defn: Any species of Thalaassinidæ, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.
The Zoaea of Porcellana presents on the whole the most remarkable peculiarities and, as might be anticipated from the systematic position of the adult, is in some respects intermediate between the macrurous Zoaea and that of the Brachyura.
The tail plate is rounded and has the character of the tail of a macrurous Zoaea, but in the young Zoaea the third pair of maxillipeds is absent and the appendages generally have a brachyurous character.
A Mysis stage, which is only found in the macrurous Decapod larvae.
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