Definitions

Abdominal somite

• Any single division of body behind thorax.
  (syn. pleomere, pleonite) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Any single division of body between thorax and telson.
  (syn. pleomere, pleonite) [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Cephalocarida) One of 11 segments of abdomen. First abdominal somite ( = 9th postcephalic segment) bears reduced pair of appendages ("genital appendages"). Last abdominal somite (19th postcephalic segment) bears telson. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Pleomere. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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