- Many
vertebrates are limbless, limb-reduced, or
apodous, with a body plan
consisting of a head and
vertebral column, but no
adjoining limbs such as legs...
-
larvae types:
Apodous larvae – no legs at all and are
poorly sclerotized.
Based on sclerotization. All
Apocrita are
apodous.
Three apodous forms are recognized...
- contrast,
larvae of the
Curculionidae — the
weevils — are also
called "
apodous eruciform", (literally
meaning legless caterpillar-shaped;
unlike scarab...
- such as the
larvae of
Nematoceran flies such as mosquitoes, are
called apodous eruciform. Scarabaeiform: grub-like, with a head-capsule, as in the beetle...
-
shape typical of
larvae of Cerambycidae,
straight and legless,
termed apodous eruciform, but on some of its
segments it has
swellings that aid in locomotion...
- PMID 9202448. Ehlers, U. (1997). "Ultrastructure of the
statocysts in the
apodous sea cu****ber
Leptosynapta inhaerens (Holothuroidea, Echinodermata)". Acta...
- as blueberry, cranberry, and huckleberry. The
larva is 5 to 8 mm long,
apodous, and
white with
chewing mouthparts.
Female adults are 4.75 mm in length...
- feeding, they may be saprophagous, mycophagous, or predatory. The
larvae are
apodous and
eucephalic and cylindrical-fusiform,
depressed dorsoventrally and distinctly...
-
generally polygonal and
visible only in the
electron microscope. The
larva is
apodous, cylindrical, and elongated, more or less
flattened dorsoventrally and...
-
Nahuatl "metatl". Today's
millstones are monolithic,
usually made of basalt,
apodous, or tripod, rectangular, and
slightly concave on the
grinding surface....
