Definitions

Walking leg

• See: Pereiopod   [Martin, 2005]
• Any nonchelate pereiopod. [Butler, T. H.]
• Any nonchelate pereiopod. [Chace and Hobbs, 1969]
• One of last four pairs of thoracic limbs, or thoracic limbs exclusive of maxillipeds and cheliped(s). [Poore, 2004]
• See pereopod. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Pereopod. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Amphipoda) Pereopod. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Posterior limbs that are long, slender, jointed, directed ventrally and used for locomotion. [Cohen, Peterson, and Maddocks, in press]

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