Definitions

Pouchlike diverticulum generally connected with mesenteron, with liver function; also see hepatopancreas. [McLaughlin, 1980]
(Taxon-specific: Order Cladocera) Digestive cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Cumacea) One of up to four pairs of relatively short, lateral digestive ceca opening into digestive tract at stomach/midgut border.
(syn. digestive caecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) One of typically two large digestive glands occupying greater part of cephalothorax, each opening into junction of pyloric stomach and intestine. (paired, unpaired).
(syn. hepatopancreas, digestive gland) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) Midgut cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Subclass Cirripedia) Digestive cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Euphausiacea) Hepatic gland. [Stachowitsch, 1992]