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- pairs of thoracic appendages are biramous (branching) limbs known as pereopods, and are used for swimming, as well as for wafting water towards the maxillipeds...
- function as mouthparts. Each pereonite has a pair of appendages known as pereopods. The first two pairs are modified into raptorial appendages known as gnathopods...
- The seven free segments of the thorax each bear a pair of unbranched pereopods (limbs). In most species these are used for locomotion and are of much...
- The decapod (crustaceans such as a crab, lobster, shrimp or prawn) is made up of 20 body segments grouped into two main body parts: the cephalothorax and...
- have in common the functionalities of their five pairs of legs, called pereopods: the first and anteriormost set are chelipeds whose right side is generally...
- the antenna, is stout, tapering, and very long. The ambulatory legs (pereopods) end in claws (chelae). The size of the adults varies from a few centimetres...
- australis by its single, unpaired terminal spine on its flexor margin of pereopods 2–4. Baba, Keiji, and Chia-Wei Lin. "Five new species of chirostylid crustaceans...
- Spot shrimp have a translucent, reddish carapace with white stripes and pereopods and antennae which are banded dark and light red. Their first and fifth...
- spine on the pleotelson, and the shape and structure of the uropods and pereopods. Giant isopods like Bathynomus giganteus store substantial organic reserves...
- Shrimp by a lack of setae, longer flagellar antennae, and less robust pereopods. Rimicaris kairei have entirely white bodies with blackened branchial...