- A
branchiostegal lung is a
respiration organ used by some air-breathing arthropods. It is one of the most
significant adaptations of some
crabs and hermit...
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Their mode of
respiration is also
unique among the blennioids,
using a
branchiostegal rather than
opercular pump; this is
thought to be an
adaptation to their...
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branchiostegal membrane The
membrane connecting the
branchiostegal rays and
enclosing the gill
chamber ventrally.
branchiostegals,
branchiostegal ray(s)...
- symplectic, posttemporal, and
supratemporal bones, the gill rakers, and the
branchiostegal rays. The loss of
these structures is
attributed to neoteny; that is...
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abdomens and stop
carrying a s****.
Coconut crabs have
organs known as
branchiostegal lungs,
which they use for
breathing instead of
their vestigial gills...
- book lungs. The
coconut crab is
terrestrial and uses
structures called branchiostegal lungs to
breathe air.
Juveniles are
released into the ocean, however...
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respiratory organs of
terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobita and Birgus): gills,
branchiostegal lungs and
abdominal lungs".
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absent in most species, and the
lateral line is uninterrupted. The
branchiostegal rays (bony rays
supporting the gill
membranes behind the
lower jaw)...
- Stomiiformes, they
still have
fully developed pseudobranchs.
Their branchiostegal rays are 6–10,
three of them
attach to the
posterior ceratohyal (epihyal)...
- structure, a
single dorsal fin, fulcra, a
large median gular and
numerous branchiostegals,
ganoid scales, and a
valvula cerebelli in the brain. The following...
