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for all-sized females has been observed in two Caribbean 

 species, Panulirus inflatus (Gracia, 1985) and P. argiis 

 (Fonseca-Larios and Briones-Fourzan, 1998). Briones- 

 Fourzan and Contreras-Ortiz ( 1999), however, could detect 

 no difference in egg size among P. guttatus sampled during 



three consecutive years. Mean egg size declined within the 

 spawning season, but this decline reflected a loss in mass 

 caused by embryonic development within individual eggs 

 rather than the production of smaller eggs later in the 

 breeding season (Briones-Fourzan and Contreras-Ortiz, 



