Zoeas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 40 anagrams from letters in zoeas (aeosz).
1820-30; New Latin, equivalent to Greek zō(ḗ) life + New Latin -ea -ea
You ask about the skipping of the zoea stage in fresh-water decapods: is this an illustration of acceleration?
The maggot is the larva of the fly, and the zoea is the larva of the Crab.
With crowds of its brothers and sisters, the zoea kicks about on the surface of the sea.
It was called a zoea; but you can call it a Crab caterpillar or larva.
As an illustration of this metamorphosis, we give figures of the zoea Taurus in two states, viz., Fig.