These data were compared with similar information, previously obtained for two representatives of the Ctenopoda
(Kotov & Boikova, 1998). The sequence of events is basically similar in the two groups during early and late
phases of their development, but the time of shedding of the embryonic membranes is different in the Anomopoda
and Ctenopoda. The ctenopod embryo hatching from the second egg membrane is covered by the third membrane,
which will be cast some hours later. The anomopod embryo hatches from the second egg membrane approximately
simultaneously with the shedding of the third membrane, and it is covered already by the fourth membrane after
the shedding of the second egg membrane