| The carapace of a zoea covers the head and the forward portion of the thorax. |
| Most metamorphosing malacostracans have a nauplius larva, but in many species eggs hatch into zoea larvae. |
| With crowds of its brothers and sisters, the zoea kicks about on the surface of the sea. |
| Anthony Rice has used morphology of zoea to develop phylogenies of subsets of decapods that provides a different insight into relationships. |
| The purpose of this study was to examine and identify Brachyuran zoea of the San Francisco Bay Estuary, then to generate a dichotomous key. |
| The larval stage, known as the zoea, is a minute transparent organism with a legless, rounded body, that swims and feeds in the plankton. |
