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cephalothorax and is
composed of six
segments –
called somites or
pleonites – and a telson. In Hapalogastrinae, this
abdomen is soft,
while it is...
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uropods (a
character shared with some
other isopod groups), the
fusion of
pleonites 5, 4 and
sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and
absence of the
first pleopod...
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bring food to the four sets of jaws. The
abdomen has five
segments called pleonites, each with a pair of
biramous pleopods.
These are
modified into swimming...
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seven segments (pereonites), and an
abdomen (pleon) with six
segments (
pleonites), some of
which may be fused. The head is
fused with the
first segment...
- wide. It doesn't have eyes. The
first and
second pleonites are much
smaller than the pereonites.
Pleonites three to five are as long as the pereonites. The...
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almost smooth with
light spots. In
adults the
plates of the
posterior (
pleonites) fuse with each
other after moulting. Like all
other members of the family...
- margin. The four
anterior pleonites (parts of the
abdomen of
crustaceans called pleon) are long and wide,
while the
fifth pleonite is
relatively reduced and...
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dorsal B
dorsal scale-seta C cephalon,
frontal D cephalon,
dorsal E
pleonites 4, 5,
telson and
uropods F
antennula G
antenna – via ResearchGate. Helmut...
- to the family: the
telson is
fused to the last
abdominal segment (last
pleonite), the
dorsal part of the
mandible has a boat
shape (naviculoid), exopods...
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flattened where along the
posterior margin there is a row of long setospines.
Pleonites can bear one pair of
pleopods where the
exopodites are long and multisegmented...
