- appendages. An
appendage which is
modified to ****ist in
feeding is
known as a
maxilliped or gnathopod.[citation needed] In
echinoderms an
appendage called a pedicellaria...
-
maxillipeds second maxillipeds third maxillipeds first pereiopods second pereiopods third pereiopods fourth pereiopods fifth pereiopods Maxillipeds are...
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appendage is
modified to
venom claws. The
embryonic cuticle on
second maxilliped has an egg tooth. The trochanter–prefemur
joint is fixed. A
spiral ridge...
- bear legs,
which may be
specialised as
pereiopods (walking legs) and
maxillipeds (feeding legs).
Malacostraca and
Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal...
- mouthparts,
possess a pair of "poison claws", or forci****s. These, like the
maxillipeds of crustaceans, are
modified legs and not true mouthparts. The forci****s...
- are
shifted (by heterochrony) by up to
three segments.
Segments with
maxillipeds have Hox gene 7.
Fossil trilobites probably had
three body regions, each...
-
Strike mechanics and
spearing movement of the 2nd
maxilliped (raptorial claw,
ballistic claw) of
mantis shrimp...
- It
differs from
other stenopodideans by the
enlargement of its
third maxilliped. The
holotype of M.
bahamaensis has a
total length (TL) of 14.4 millimetres...
-
central parts of the
larger mouthparts, from the
mandible to the
third maxilliped. The most
significant parasite of N. norvegicus is a
dinoflagellate of...
-
thoracic limbs. The pair on the
first segment has been
modified into
maxillipeds,
which collaborates with the
maxillae in the
feeding process, but is...
