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pairs of
thoracic appendages are
biramous (branching)
limbs known as
pereopods, and are used for swimming, as well as for
wafting water towards the maxillipeds...
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function as mouthparts. Each
pereonite has a pair of
appendages known as
pereopods. The
first two
pairs are
modified into
raptorial appendages known as gnathopods...
- The
seven free
segments of the
thorax each bear a pair of
unbranched pereopods (limbs). In most
species these are used for
locomotion and are of much...
- The
decapod (crustaceans such as a crab, lobster,
shrimp or prawn) is made up of 20 body
segments grouped into two main body parts: the
cephalothorax and...
- protuberances. The
third pair of
pereopods (walking limbs) have a
brush of
setae (bristles) near the claw
while the
other pereopods have
scattered setae. The...
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spine on the pleotelson, and the
shape and
structure of the
uropods and
pereopods.
Giant isopods have been
recorded in the West
Atlantic from the US state...
- the antenna, is stout, tapering, and very long. The
ambulatory legs (
pereopods) end in
claws (chelae). The size of the
adults varies from a few centimetres...
- Spot
shrimp have a translucent,
reddish carapace with
white stripes and
pereopods and
antennae which are
banded dark and
light red.
Their first and fifth...
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australis by its single,
unpaired terminal spine on its
flexor margin of
pereopods 2–4. Baba, Keiji, and Chia-Wei Lin. "Five new
species of
chirostylid crustaceans...
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several autapomorphies, most
significantly their unique lack of
second pereopods, but also for
their partially flexible abdomen,
which allows them to ****ume...
