Meaning of gonopod | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pleopod that is specialized for fertilisation in the males of some decapods.
2. A clasping structure, possibly also evolved from legs, at the tip of the abdomen of some male insects.

Examples

“...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...”

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