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Ramus

A branch of an appendage, e.g. the exopood or endopod.
(pl. rami) [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]
A branch of an appendage.
(pl. rami) [Wilson, 1989]
Branch of appendage or other structure (e.g., flagellum). [McLaughlin, 1980]
Branch of limb or other appendage (e.g., caudal furca). [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
Branch of limb; endopod is inner branch and exopod is outer branch.
(pl. rami) [Poore, 2004]
(Taxon-specific: Order Cladocera) Branch of appendage. Refers either to dorsal and ventral branches of antennae or to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of trunk appendage. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Diplostraca) Term applied to either branch (flagellum) of antenna. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Branch of an appendage, typically referring to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of biramous appendage. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Amphipoda) Branch of appendage. Typically refers to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of biramous appendage (e.g., pleopods, uropods). (one-articulate, multiarticulate). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) Branch of an appendage. [Kensley and Schotte, 1989]
(Taxon-specific: Order Isopoda) Branch of appendage; typically refers to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of biramous appendage (e.g., pleopods, uropods). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Leptostraca) Branch of appendage; typically refers to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of biramous appendage. (lamellar = plate-like, flagelliform). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Subclass Cirripedia) Branch of appendage, typically referring to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branches of thoracic appendage (thoracopods in ascothoracican, cirri in other cirripeds). (See also caudal ramus). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) A branch of an appendage; the exopod or endopod. [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004]
(Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) A group of serially repeated segment elements along a proximodistal axis and originating on the basis; the exopod and the endopod are rami.
(pl. rami) [Ferrari and Dahms, in press]
(Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Branch of an appendage, typically referring to inner branch (endopod) or outer branch (exopod) of biramous appendage (e.g., antenna, mandible, maxillule, pereopod). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Class Remipedia) Branch of an appendage, typically referring to inner (endopod) and outer (exopod) branch of trunk appendage, antennule, or antenna. (see also caudal ramus). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Euphausiacea) Branch of appendage; typically refers to inner (endopod) or outer (exopod) branch of biramous appendage. [Stachowitsch, 1992]