Definitions

Mastigobranch

• Slender respiratory at base of epipod.
  (syn. mastigobranchia) [McLaughlin, 1980]
• Slender respiratory process at base of epipod(ite).
  (syn. mastigobranchia (pl., mastigobranchiae)) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• In basal segment (coxa) of thoracic appendage (thoracopod), that part of epipodite which is not modified as gill (podobranch). Projects between gills and serves as both supporting and respiratory structure. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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