- eyes is
called the rostrum.
first pleopods second pleopods third pleopods fourth pleopods fifth pleopods uropods Pleopods (also
called swimmerets) are primarily...
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second pair of
pleopods, and
sometimes also the first, are
modified for use in
transferring sperm. The
endopods (inner
branches of the
pleopods) are modified...
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There are five more
pairs of
appendages on the abdomen. They are
called pleopods.
There is one
final pair
called uropods, which, with the telson, form the...
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rounded abdomen. This is
because female crabs brood fertilised eggs on
their pleopods.
Crabs attract a mate
through chemical (pheromones), visual, acoustic,...
- The
white patches on the
first two
pairs of
pleopods on this
specimen of
Porcellio laevis identify them as
pleopodal lungs....
- the
fertilised eggs are
incubated by the female, and
remain stuck to the
pleopods (swimming legs)
until the zoea
larvae are
ready to hatch. It is this characteristic...
- from
which it can
safely been
separated only by the more
elongated first pleopod-exopodite of the male. Historically,
three subspecies of Armadillidium...
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abdomen has five
segments called pleonites, each with a pair of
biramous pleopods.
These are
modified into
swimming legs and rami, flat
respiratory structures...
- rami
which is
present in many groups. The
abdomen in
malacostracans bears pleopods, and ends in a telson,
which bears the ****, and is
often flanked by uropods...
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performs post-co****tory
behavior until the
female has the eggs on her legs (
pleopods).
Hermit crabs molt as they
develop and grow. In
doing so they shed an...
