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pairs of appendages: an upper,
unsegmented exite and a lower,
segmented endopod.
These would later fuse into a
single pair of
biramous appendages united...
- 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...
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respiratory structures on the
endopods are internal, with a
spiracle and pseudotrachaea,
which resemble lungs. In others, the
endopod is
folded inside the adjoining...
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trunk limbs e1-5 =
cephalic limb
endopods, g= gnathobase, en=
endopod ex =
exopod p1-7 =
numbered podomeres of
endopod Closeup restoration of the head Life...
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appendages is
biramous and the
endopods are the
better developed of the branches,
being used for
crawling or grasping. Each
endopod consist of
seven articulating...
- (two-branched) appendages,
which gradually decreased in size posteriorly. The
endopods (lower, leg-like branches) of the
biramous appendages had 7 segments/podomeres...
- 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...
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appendages formed of
lateral anomalocaridid-type
flaps and
ventral subconical endopods". The
fossils indicate that the
species represent "an
intermediate stage...
- (podomeres) of the
endopods (inner, leg-like branch) of the
biramous limbs strongly varied in
proportion along the body length, the
endopods generally curved...
-
superfamily Palaemonoidea (below) with
which it
shares the
absence of
endopods on the pereiopods, and a
first pereiopod that is
thinner than the second...
