NOUN
- one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming
How To Use pleopod In A Sentence
- This is a composite image of the 1st pair of pleopods and the outer branch (exopodite) of the right (animal's left) pair that came apart during the removal operation (each pleopod has an outer and an inner branch). Archive 2007-12-01
- Pleopods are made up of two narrow, annulate rami, the anteriormost being the slightly longer of the two.
- In contrast, arthropods such as the lobster possess distinct maxillipeds, pereopods, pleopods, and uropod.
- From left to right appendages are: antennule, antenna, mandible, first and second maxillae, first through fifth maxillipeds, 3 walking legs, 5 pleopods with pinkish gills, and uropod.
- He then releases sperm which she sweeps into her marsupium by vibrating her pleopods. Crustacea
- Often, a biologist need only examine the pleopods to make a family-level designation, thus making the dorsal carapace features superfluous in the diagnosis.
- Those are the modified endopodites of pleopods inner branches of biramous abdominal limbs that have evolved to perform the function of sperm transfer. Is it a boy or a girl?
- Sex determination was based on the morphology of the first pleopod and brood pouch if present.
- On males, the fourth pleopod is long and specialized for mating. Crustacea
- It possesses several features that place it in the Lophogastrida, such as the presence of well-developed abdominal pleurae, pleopods and pereiopods, a broadly structured telson and a lack of uropodal statocysts.
