- Look up
marsupium,
brood pouch, or
ovisac in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Marsupium is the
Latin word for a (brood)
pouch in
several animal groups:...
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Pterocarpus marsupium, also
known as
Malabar kino or
Indian kino, is a medium-to-large,
deciduous tree that can grow up to 31 m (102 ft) tall. It is native...
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common name
opossum shrimps stems from the
presence of a
brood pouch or "
marsupium" in females. The fact that the
larvae are
reared in this
pouch and are...
- word
marsupial comes from
marsupium, the
technical term for the
abdominal pouch. It, in turn, is
borrowed from the
Latin marsupium and
ultimately from the...
- habitats. They are
chiefly defined by the
presence of a
brood pouch, or
marsupium,
formed from thin
flattened plates (oostegites)
borne on the basalmost...
- respiration.
Females brood their young in a
pouch under their thorax called the
marsupium.
Isopods have
various feeding methods: some eat dead or
decaying plant...
- Like
other peracarids,
female woodlice carry fertilised eggs in
their marsupium,
through which they
provide developing embryos with water,
oxygen and...
-
shortage of food
during the summer.
Mature females develop a
brood pouch or
marsupium when ****ually active, the
pouch being formed by
overlapping oostegites...
- development; in many species, this
takes place within a pouch-like sac, the
marsupium,
located in the
front of the mother's abdomen. This is the plesiomorphic...
- The
marsupium or
brood pouch, is a
characteristic feature of Peracarida,
including the
orders Amphipoda,
Isopoda ,and ****acea. It is an egg
chamber formed...
