Definitions

Digestive gland

• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Hepatic cecum. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Stomatopoda) Pair of large glands, one originating from each side of pyloric stomach and extending along midgut. Fills most of body, giving rise to pair of lateral pouches in posterior four throacomeres, in all pleomeres, and branching into telson.
  (syn. Digestive cecum, cecum) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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