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Notes on the Rearing of Echinoid Larvæ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

E. W. MacBride
Affiliation:
Professor of Zoology in McGill University, Montreal.

Extract

The problem of successfully rearing the larvæ of Echinoidea until they had completed their metamorphosis, has been solved by several naturalists. Agassiz was able, for three weeks, to keep plutei alive which he had fished from the sea, at the end of which time they sank to the bottom and became young echini. Bury was able also to rear a few of the plutei of one of the Neapolitan species through the whole of their larval life, and finally Théel has published an account of how he obtained all stages in the development of Echninocyamus pusillus from the result of artificial fertilisation.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1900

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