- appendages. An
appendage which is
modified to ****ist in
feeding is
known as a
maxilliped or gnathopod.[citation needed] In vertebrates, an
appendage can refer...
-
appendage is
modified to
venom claws. The
embryonic cuticle on
second maxilliped has an egg tooth. The trochanter–prefemur
joint is fixed. A
spiral ridge...
-
maxillipeds second maxillipeds third maxillipeds first pereiopods second pereiopods third pereiopods fourth pereiopods fifth pereiopods Maxillipeds are...
- mouthparts,
possess a pair of "poison claws", or forci****s. These, like the
maxillipeds of crustaceans, are
modified legs and not true mouthparts. The forci****s...
- bear legs,
which may be
specialised as
pereiopods (walking legs) and
maxillipeds (feeding legs).
Malacostraca and
Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal...
-
feeds with long
setae borne from the
maxilliped palps, or
scavenges by
chopping up
flesh with the
second maxilliped and
further shredding with the mandibles...
-
first pair, the maxillula,
pumps water into the gill cavity.
After the
maxilliped come five more
pairs of appendages, the pereiopods.
These form the ten...
- are
shifted (by heterochrony) by up to
three segments.
Segments with
maxillipeds have Hox gene 7.
Fossil trilobites probably had
three body regions, each...
- It
differs from
other stenopodideans by the
enlargement of its
third maxilliped. The
holotype of M.
bahamaensis has a
total length (TL) of 14.4 millimetres...
- food
source and K.
puravida has
highly modified setae (hairs) on its 3rd
maxilliped (a
mouth appendage)
which it uses to
harvest these bacteria. Yeti crabs...
