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Definition of Pleopods
1. pleopod [n] - See also: pleopod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleopods
Literary usage of Pleopods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"Before speaking of the hatching larva? it must be recalled that all crayfish eggs
are fastened to the pleopods of the mother by a. hardening mass whose ..."
2. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson (1905)
"First and second pairs of pleopods not similar to each other; first pair ol
pleopods with both branches hard, and forming a large operculum. ..."
3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1881)
"Only the two first pairs of segments of the pleon provided with pleopods in the
males ; maxillae ... Only two pairs of pleopods in the male ; telson present ..."
4. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"The pleopods in the male are all ... Sars, agrees with the preceding genus in
having the pleopods of the male ..."
5. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"The second, third, fourth and fifth pairs of pleopods are biramous and very much
alike ... These pleopods are used for forward swimming and, in the female, ..."
6. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"The first two pairs of abdominal legs or modified pleopods of the male are ...
Since the pleopods tend to lie fiat against the body, they thus fold or close ..."
7. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1906)
"The five pairs of pleopods are shaped about as in ... a little narrower than the
outer ramus ; both rami are similar in quality to those of the pleopods. ..."
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