What's the difference between megalopa and megalops?
Megalopa
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) -- The megalopae exhibits a reduced color-pattern.-- Difficulties occur often during moulting to the adult stage.
(2) Five, rarely four, zoeal stages and megalopa were obtained.
(3) Megalopae that failed to initiate regeneration complete ecdysis significantly faster than do controls.
(4) The amounts of ecdysteroids increased during development and reached maxima of 93, 137, and 165 pg ecdysone equivalents per larva in zoea I, zoea II, and megalopa, respectively.
(5) Megalopae of the mud crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii can regenerate autotomized limbs.
(6) Ecdysteroid levels were determined by radioimmunoassay during the larval development of the spider crab Hyas araneus L. In each of the three larval instars (zoea I, zoea II, megalopa) a minimum in ecdysteroid levels was found during early postmoult and a maximum during premoult.
(7) The molt cycle of nonregenerating megalopae exposed to ecdysone was further accelerated.
(8) Exposure of intermolt- and premolt-stage megalopae to exogenous ecdysone significantly reduced (greater than or equal to 30%) the number of animals completing regeneration.
Megalops
Definition:
(n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
(2) A tetrapod-like hypothalamo-hypophysial portal system and a persistent bucco-hypophysial canal are present in Megalops cyprinoides.
(3) Regeneration during the megalopal stage required a significant delay in ecdysis to the first crab.
(4) In Sepia officinalis and Taonius megalops, the crystals are arranged in regular shaped packets and these packets of crystals are stacked together.
(5) At Humacao, the average catch was 7 fish per fishermen (mostly tilapia, Tilapia mossambica, and tarpon, Megalops atlantica) and 13 crabs per crabber (all blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus).
(6) In contrast to the other species, Peromyscus megalops possesses an acrocentric X chromosome and a very small Y chromosome.
(7) The statoliths of Sepia officinalits, Octopus vulgaris, Alloteuthis subulata and Taonius megalops have a smooth outline, but an irregular shape.
(8) A total of 13 species of examined fishes were found with Anisakis larvae, these were Argyrosomus argentatus, Caranx djeddaba, Diploprion bifasciatum, Evynnis cardinalis, Lethrinus haematopterus, Megalops cyprinoides, Nemipterus virgatus, Paraplagusia formosana, Plectorhinchus pictus, Rastrelliger chrysozonus, Saurida tumbil, Scolopsis vosmeri, and Trichiurus haumela.