Meaning of arthrostracous | Babel Free

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Pertaining to the Arthrostraca, an obsolete grouping of crustaceans with segmented thoraxes and abdomens, bearing seven pairs of thoracic legs; included in this group are the isopods and amphipods.

not-comparable, rare

Examples

“The Cumacea resemble⟳ the arthrostracous Crustacea in having eyes without a movable stalk; but they closely resemble⟳ the Schizopoda in the form⟳ of the body, thus corresponding with the lower developmental stages of the decapodous crustaceans.”

“In the important paper already mentioned, Hansen (J03) gives reason⟳ for believing that the labial segment in insects was primitively a trunk-segment, and has become⟳ secondarily associated with the head, like⟳ the segment that bears the maxillipeds in the arthrostracous Crustacea”

“[...] and have⟳ considered the possibility of their derivation from either the Arthrostracous Crustacea or the tracheate Arachnida.”

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