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- It is divided into seven segments known as pereonites. The cephalon is usually fused to the first pereonite; while the highly reduced and almost invisible...
- the limbs. The remaining pereonites (third to seventh) lack the dense setae of the first two pereonites. The third pereonite has seven pairs of spines...
- are smaller than their male counterparts and have four pairs of long pereonites, or lateral horns, as opposed to the males' two. Both males and females...
- Hyperia macrocephala is shorter than the combined length of the first two pereonites. Specimens that are large and mature have CX IV that are pointed and laterally...
- second pleonites are much smaller than the pereonites. Pleonites three to five are as long as the pereonites. The entire length of the pleotelson does...
- strong ****ual dimorphism. Females lack the dorsal tubercles present on the pereonites of the males. Males also have a larger pleotelson and uropods. The largest...
- consists of a head (cephalon), a thorax (pereon) with seven segments (pereonites), and an abdomen (pleon) with six segments (pleonites), some of which...
- Caprella mutica but can be distinguished by its smooth first and second pereonites, as well as its linear-shaped gills. J. Lowry (2010). Lowry J (ed.). "Caprella...
- convex and finely punctulated. The head is closely encased by the first pereonite. The segments of the pleon are rounded, with the terminal segment being...
- species of woodlouse distributed throughout Portugal. The back of the pereonites and pleonites are smooth, with circular depressions covered in setae of...