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Meaning of Maxillipes from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- bear legs, which may be specialised as pereiopods (walking legs) and maxillipeds (feeding legs). Malacostraca and Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal...
- 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...
- from several fragmentary specimens, mostly consisting of the head and maxillipeds. However, a few specimens have preserved body segments, with one preserving...
- Strike mechanics and spearing movement of the 2nd maxilliped (raptorial claw, ballistic claw) of mantis shrimp...
- concentrators (lenses) and a concave retina. The lobster's thorax is composed of maxillipeds, appendages that function primarily as mouthparts, and pereiopods, appendages...
- from small puddles by transferring it from their chelipeds to their maxillipeds. In addition to the branchiostegal lung, the coconut crab has an additional...
- 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...