Definitions

Swimming leg

• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Term referring either to pereopod modified (flattened) for swimming or to pleopods used in swimming. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) A contralateral pair of thoracic limbs which are flattened anterioposteriorly and united by an interpodal bar; these attributes are shared only in the transformed limb and later steps of limb development (see also appendage and limb). [Ferrari and Dahms, in press]

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