Annals of the South African Museum, Volume 51South African Museum, 1968 - Natural history |
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... body is covered by a thick , epidermal exoskeleton , the constituents and structure of which have been minutely examined in Brachyura by Drach ( 1939 ) , and discussed relative to Crustacea in general by Dennell ( 1960 ) . Briefly , it ...
... body is covered by a thick , epidermal exoskeleton , the constituents and structure of which have been minutely examined in Brachyura by Drach ( 1939 ) , and discussed relative to Crustacea in general by Dennell ( 1960 ) . Briefly , it ...
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... BODY Fundamentally the body may be divided into three regions or tagmata , the head or cephalon , the thorax , and the abdomen but , in common with other Decapoda , secondary fusion of the first two parts has resulted in the formation ...
... BODY Fundamentally the body may be divided into three regions or tagmata , the head or cephalon , the thorax , and the abdomen but , in common with other Decapoda , secondary fusion of the first two parts has resulted in the formation ...
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South African Museum. A. BODY CAVITY INTERNAL ANATOMY One of the diagnostic features of the Arthropoda is the expansion of the primary body cavity or haemocoel to form the perivisceral cavity and the great reduction of the secondary body ...
South African Museum. A. BODY CAVITY INTERNAL ANATOMY One of the diagnostic features of the Arthropoda is the expansion of the primary body cavity or haemocoel to form the perivisceral cavity and the great reduction of the secondary body ...
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abdominal artery abdominal segment adductor muscle antennal antennal gland antennulary antennule antero-lateral apodeme appendages arises arthrodial arthrodial membrane Astacus attached attractor basipodite biol blood branch branchiostegite bundles carapace cardiac fore-gut cephalic cephalothorax coxopodite Crustacea dactylopodite decapod depressor digestive gland distal dorsal dorso-lateral ecdysis end sac endite endopleurite endopodite endosternite epimeral epimeron epipodite epistoma exopodite exopoditis exoskeleton extensor eyestalk female fibres flagellum flexor fore-gut frontal ganglia ganglion gastric gills Homarus inner inserted Jasus labyrinth lalandii lateral levator lobe lobster mandible mandibular maxilla maxilliped medial meropodite moulting muscle chamber oblique muscle oesophageal ophthalmic artery optic optic cup ossicle outer pair Palinurus Pandalus Panulirus paraphragms peduncle pereiopods pigment pleopods posterior postero-lateral productor promotor protopodite proximal margin puerulus stage reductor region remotor muscle Reptantia rhabdomes sclerite second maxilla setae sinus gland species spermatophoric statocyst sternal sternum telson tendon tergum third maxillipeds thoracic segments thoraco-abdominal transverse muscle uropod valve ventral muscles ventro-laterally wall X-organ