“…Planktotrophic larvae of callianassids go through three to seven zoeal stages to reach the decapodid stage (Kornienko, Korn, & Golubinskaya, ; Kubo, Shimoda, & Tamaki, ; Pohle, Santana, Jansen, & Greenlaw, ). Following hatching, these shrimp larvae are exported to the coastal ocean, where they grow before returning to the shore (Bilodeau, Felder, & Neigel, ; Dumbauld & Bosley, ; Yannicelli et al, ). In coastal waters of mid‐western Kyushu, Japan, under a meso‐tidal and mixed, mainly semidiurnal, tidal regime (Fujimoto, ), local populations of the callianassid species, Nihonotrypaea harmandi (Bouvier, ), inhabit intertidal sandflats in a region from the outer one‐third part of an estuary (Ariake Sound) to the inner‐shelf coastal ocean (Amakusa‐nada) (Tamaki, Itoh, & Kubo, ; Figure ).…”