FIGURE 8. Caprella equilibra Say, 1818 in Postembryonal development in Caprellidae: SEM description and comparison of ready-to-hatch juveniles and adults of two Mediterranean skeleton shrimps (Crustacea: Amphipoda)

FIGURE 8. Caprella equilibra Say, 1818 (Lagoon of Venice). SEM of ♀ adults. A. mouthparts, lateral view. Bar: 100µm. B. Mx1, lateral view. large arrowheads marginal setae fields; small arrowhead forked spines; arrow spinelike processes. Bar: 100µm. C. Mx2, ventral view. small, large arrowheads ventral setae fields; arrow marginal setae. Bar: 20µm. D. Mxp, ventral view. arrowheads spines on outer plate = ischial endite. Bar: 200µm. E. Mxp, inner plate = basal endite and outer plate = ischial endite, laterodorsal view. arrowheads spines. Bar: 20µm. F. Mxp, endopodit, detailed view. large arrowheads setae; small arrowheads bristle rows. Bar: 40µm. G. ♀ genital opening on Pr 5, posterioventral view. arrowhead setae. Bar: 100µm. H. Gn1, 2, lateral view. arrowhead proximal spine; arrow ventral spine on pereonite 2. Bar: 200µm. I. P5 propodus, ventral view. arrowheads grasping spines. Bar: 100µm. J. grasping spines. small arrowheads lamellae; large arrowhead median process. Bar: 20µm. iedt outer plate = ischial endite; End endopodit; bedt inner plate = basal endite; Lb labium; Lmob lacinia mobilis; MxP maxilla 1 palp; outpl outer plate; ba basis; i ischium; m merus; crp carpus; prd propodus; dt dactylus.