Definitions

Pleopodal cavity

• The deeply concave ventral surface of the pleotelson that encloses the pleopods dorsally and laterally. Because the more posterior pleopods function as gills, the pleopodal family is sometimes called the branchial cavity. [Wilson, 1989]

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