Definitions

Efferent respiratory channels

• Channels through which water passes from the gills and which open at the dorso-external (in the Brachyrhyncha) or at the middle (in the Oxyrhyncha) of the endostome margin.
  (syn. efferent branchial channels) [Ingle, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Opening through which water exits from branchial chamber under carapace. Typically applied to more restricted opening in crab-like (brachyuran) decapod; located anteriorly on each side of endostome.
  (syn. efferent branchial channel) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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