- as the
exopod or exopodite,
while the
internal branch is
known as the
endopod or endopodite.
Other structures aside from the
latter two are
termed exites...
-
modified spiniform setae.
Pereopod 2
carpopropodus multisegmented.
Uropodal endopod with
spiniform setae on its
inner margin.
Members of the
genus are not...
-
pairs of appendages: an upper,
unsegmented exite and a lower,
segmented endopod.
These would later fuse into a
single pair of
biramous appendages united...
- show one of the
earliest steps in the
evolution of the
endopod, with an
unsclerotized endopod fused to a flap that is
attached to the body wall, rather...
-
segment of its
raptorial claw, and by the
colouration of the
uropodal endopod, the
distal half of
which is dark in L.
maculata but not in L. sulcata...
- torn into
smaller pieces by the blade-like, inward-facing
lobes called endopods at the end of the leg. The
heart of
tadpole shrimps is a long
dorsal tube...
-
morphology of the
second antenna: the
Podocopa have a
relatively long
endopod,
whereas the
Myodocopa have a
relatively long exopod. The
seventh limb...
-
sometimes also the first, are
modified for use in
transferring sperm. The
endopods (inner
branches of the pleopods) are
modified into
structures with thin...
- pair of
biramous appendages with flap-like
exopod and
reduced leg-like
endopod.
There is a broad, flat paddle-like telson.
Originally Sanctacaris was...
-
homonomous (i.e.
having little differentiation from each other), with
endopods typically divided into
seven segments/podomeres, and paddle-shaped exopods...
