Figure 8. Embryonic development of L. vannamei at 28°C, pH 8.0 and 30 g kg.

⁻¹ salinity. The sampled L. vannamei embryos were checked under the inverted microscope to confirm their embryogenesis stages. A: Newly Spawned Egg (0 mps); B: Blastula Stage (140 mps); C: Gastrula Stage (215 mps); D: Antennal Limb Bud Stage (275 mps); E: Biramous Antenna and Mandible (480 mps); F: Hatching Nauplius (600 mps); G: Newly Hatched Nauplius (660 mps). Abbreviations: mps, minutes post spawning. Scale bars: 100 µm.