Definitions
Pseudotrachea
- Aerial gas exchange organs found in terrestrial isopods. [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
- Air sacs used for gas exchange in most terrestrial oniscidean isopods. [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
- Respiratory structure developed in pleopods of some Isopoda for air-breathing; they consist of small ramified tubules inside limb opening outward in slit-like apertures and filled with air. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
- Respiratory structure developed in pleopods of some terrestrial isopods for air-breathing. [McLaughlin, 1980]
- (Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) In certain terrestrial isopods, modification of outer branch (exopod) of pleopod for respiratory purposes. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
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Crustacea Glossary. Crustacea Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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