- segment,
including antennae,
mouthparts (including mandibles,
maxillae and
maxillipeds), gills,
locomotor legs (pereiopods for walking, and
pleopods for swimming)...
-
maxillipeds second maxillipeds third maxillipeds first pereiopods second pereiopods third pereiopods fourth pereiopods fifth pereiopods Maxillipeds are...
- from
several fragmentary specimens,
mostly consisting of the head and
maxillipeds. However, a few
specimens have
preserved body segments, with one preserving...
- centipedes. The forci****s are
modifications of the
first pair of legs (the
maxillipeds),
forming a pincer-like appendage, just
behind the head. Forci****s are...
- 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...
-
referencing their evolution from
maxillipeds, a term
which they are also
sometimes known by in the
context of
centipedes (
maxillipeds, maxillipedes).
Other names...
- bear legs,
which may be
specialised as
pereiopods (walking legs) and
maxillipeds (feeding legs).
Malacostraca and
Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal...
-
attached only to the
first three. The
first two
thoracic segments bear
maxillipeds which are used to
filter plankton and
organic particulate from the water...
-
being called chelipeds. In
front of the
pereiopods are
three pairs of
maxillipeds that
function as
feeding appendages. The head has five
pairs of appendages...
- are
shifted (by heterochrony) by up to
three segments.
Segments with
maxillipeds have Hox gene 7.
Fossil trilobites probably had
three body regions, each...
