The second maxillipeds are developed into powerful prehensile organs, and the branchiae, instead of being connected with the appendages of head and trunk, are developed on the pleopods, appendages of the abdomen.
This mechanism as a whole is unique, although, as Sars observes, the epipod of the first maxillipeds has a respiratory function also in the Lophogastridae and Mysidae and in the cheliferous isopods.
The Hyperiidea are distinguished by having their maxillipeds never more than three-jointed.
The five maxillipedshave the characters of normal biramous Zoaea feet.
The tail plate is rounded and has the character of the tail of a macrurous Zoaea, but in the young Zoaea the third pair of maxillipeds is absent and the appendages generally have a brachyurous character.
These five maxillipeds correspond with the three maxillipedsand two anterior ambulatory appendages of the Decapoda.
The third pair of maxillipeds is Mysis-like and biramous, and the five ambulatory legs closely resemble them, the endopodite of the first being imperfectly chelate.
It consists essentially in the fresh development of the first pair of maxillipeds and the two last ambulatory appendages, the growth and segmentation of the abdomen, and the sprouting on it of biramous swimming feet.
That of Penaeus, in which the appendages up to the third pair of maxillipeds are formed, and the thorax and abdomen are segmented, the former being however very short.
The appendages up to the second pair of maxillipeds fully developed, but the thorax very imperfect and provided only with delicate foliaceous appendages not projecting beyond the edge of the cephalo-thoracic shield.
That of Euphausia, with but one pair of maxillipeds and those short and Phyllopod-like.
The two maxillipeds (mxp 1 and mxp 2) have the form and function of biramous swimming feet.
The other appendages are fully jointed, and the two maxillipeds biramous.
The maxillae and maxillipeds undergo considerable metamorphosis, the abdominal feet attain their adult form, and the three anterior thoracic ambulatory legs lose their outer rami.
Whether gill pouches were present on the maxillipeds and abdominal feet does not appear to me capable of being decided.
The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike.
Defn: One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.
One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.
Tothill has pointed out that in the embryo of some chilopods there are rudiments of two pairs of antennae and that the two pairs of maxillae and the maxillipeds are biramous.
The maxillipeds form powerful hooked claws, by means of which the animals cling to the skin of the fish they infest, and in Caligus the basal segments of the antennules have a pair of suckers which aid in adhesion.
A, Male, dorsal view, enlarged; B, the maxillipeds detached and further enlarged.
In addition to the usual mandibles, maxillulae, and maxillae, there is a pair of maxillipeds which really represent the first pair of trunk limbs.
The remaining Crabs form the tribe Brachygnatha, in which the mouth-frame and the maxillipeds that close it are more or less quadrilateral in shape.
The thoracic limbs, which are not clearly divided into maxillipeds and legs, carry a double series of plate-like gills or epipodites.
The three pairs of maxillipeds grow gradually larger, the last pair being very prominent and extending over the other mouth-parts.
The external or third pair of maxillipeds are broad and flat, and cover the mouth-parts like a lid, or operculum.
The cirri of the first pair are attached on each side close to the bases of the mandibles, and, as already remarked, have some claim to be considered as maxillipeds or mouth organs.
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