Definitions

A segment of a crustacean appendage. [Wilson, 1989]
A segment of an appendage joined to the body or to adjacent podomeres by joints and capable of independent movement. [Warner, 1977]
Any one of the segments of an appendage, such as a segment of a pereiopod or maxilliped. [Chace and Hobbs, 1969]
Any one of the segments of an appendage, such as a segment of a pereopod or maxilliped. [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]
Individual segment of limb; not.
(syn. joint) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
See segment. [McLaughlin, 1980]
Single segment of any appendage. [Hobbs and Jass, 1988]
Term used by some authors for segment of an appendage, such as merus of a pereiopod. [Butler, T. H.]
(Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Segment. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Segment of jointed crustacean limb separated from other segments by articulated joint or inflexible suture.
(syn. article) [Cohen, Peterson, and Maddocks, in press]
(Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Segment. [Stachowitsch, 1992]