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Maturation of mud crab is a step wise process apparently passing through physiological maturation before reaching functional adult stage. Mud crab begins life as a larva which hatches from an egg with undeveloped limbs (Fisheries Fact Sheet, 2013) [1] . They have been described earlier as feeding on algae, decaying wood and bamboo sticks. As omnivores, they scavenge throughout their local range for wide range of food sources (FAO, 2011 and La Sara et al., 2007) [2, 3] . Longevity of the larval stage is temperature dependent, with survival rate linked to both temperature and salinity (FAO, 2011) [2] . Fishing efforts in combination with pollution of habitat by agricultural waste water, and runoff from farming communities and urbanized area, affect population of local stock (Meynecke and Richards, 2014) [4] . Pioneering research has been conducted on Potamon ebonyicum. Aspects of biology and cultivation of the mud crab species have been investigated (Akpaniteaku, 2013, 2014, 2015, and Akpanitaeku and Onyemara, 2016) [5-8] .

Acclimatization and Feeding of Zoea Larvae of Mud Crab Potamon Ebonyicum (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) in South-East Nigeria