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Reproduction and larval development of the gastropod Cryptonatica janthostoma (Gastropoda: Naticidae)

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The larval morphology of the gastropod Cryptonatica janthostoma inhabiting the Northwest Pacific was described for the first time. Hatched planktotrophic veligers of C. janthostoma had shells 250 μm in height with 0.8 whorls, a bilobate velum with a dark brown pigmentation band shaped along its edge, pair of eye spots, tentacles and statocysts. The surface of the embryonal shell (protoconch 1) was covered with fine granules extended at the dorsal side and rounded at lateral surfaces. Concentric crests and growth lines occurred on part of the shell of late free-swimming larvae (protoconch 2) The velum of the C. janthostoma larvae remained bilobate during the pelagic stage of development, whereas it was divided in 4 lobes during larval development in most of the other species of the Naticidae family. The veliger of C. janthostoma was similar to that of Natica montagu from Danish waters [16] by its shape, pigmentation, shell sculpture and velum structure.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Kulikova, K.G. Kolbin, N.K. Kolotukhina, 2007, published in Biologiya Morya.

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Kulikova, V.A., Kolbin, K.G. & Kolotukhina, N.K. Reproduction and larval development of the gastropod Cryptonatica janthostoma (Gastropoda: Naticidae). Russ J Mar Biol 33, 324–328 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063074007050094

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