Laboratory reared and planktonic caught crustacean larvae from Pakistan

The group Crustacea has emerged as the most successful groups of animal kingdom because of its inclusion of many species having economic importance. Organisms such as the shrimps, crabs and lobsters which are commercially dominant and suitable species for aquaculture, belong to this groups. The aim of the present study was to describe all available larvae of crustacean groups obtained from the coast of Pakistan with detailed descriptive illustrations and to compare the morphological characters of the larvae with those of related genera and species. The rearing of larvae sustains through maintaining the ovigerous females till hatching and then cultured under laboratory conditions.