In summary, the ovarian maturity stages of mantis shrimp
O. massavensis can be determined on the bases of morphological
appearance of the ovaries, the abdominal tergites and telson
sternite and the histological structure of the female ovary.
When external morphological characteristics of the ovaries
were compared to histological descriptions, it was possible to
observe modifications that characterize the process in different
developmental stages throughout the ovarian cycle and, consequently,
the macroscopic classification of the ovarian stages
agrees with the modifications of the reproductive cells.