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- segment, including antennae, mouthparts (including mandibles, maxillae and maxillipeds), gills, locomotor legs (pereiopods for walking, and pleopods for swimming)...
- 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...
- from several fragmentary specimens, mostly consisting of the head and maxillipeds. However, a few specimens have preserved body segments, with one preserving...
- being called chelipeds. In front of the pereiopods are three pairs of maxillipeds that function as feeding appendages. The head has five pairs of appendages...
- eating feed. In addition to the northern krill's antenna they also have maxillipeds which aid them in handling food to their mandible. Found in insects,...
- centipedes. The forci****s are modifications of the first pair of legs (the maxillipeds), forming a pincer-like appendage, just behind the head. Forci****s are...
- bear legs, which may be specialised as pereiopods (walking legs) and maxillipeds (feeding legs). Malacostraca and Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal...
- are shifted (by heterochrony) by up to three segments. Segments with maxillipeds have Hox gene 7. Fossil trilobites probably had three body regions, each...
- than the second pair. The cephalon contains mandibles, maxillae, and maxillipeds which function as mouthparts. Each pereonite has a pair of appendages...