Definitions

Midventral platelike surface of body, situated posterodorsal to orbit. [Hobbs and Jass, 1988]
Sternites of all body somites taken together, and abdomen; ventral segmented floor of thorax.
(syn. sternal plastron) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
Structure comprised of ventral portions of somites taken together.
(pl. sterna) (syn. sternal plastron) [McLaughlin, 1980]
The calcified underside composed of fused sternites. [Warner, 1977]
The midventral surface of the body, between the coxae of the appendages. [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977]
The totally or partly fused segments of the thoracic ventral wall; collective terms for the total number of sternites. [Ingle, 1983]
The ventral surfaceof the cephalothorax between the coxae of the pereiopods.
(pl. strena) [Chace and Hobbs, 1969]
Ventral surface of body, to which limbs are attached, or between limbs. [Poore, 2004]
Ventral surface of body. [Holdich and Jones, 1983]
Ventral surface of cephalothorax between coxae or pereiopods. [Butler, T. H.]
Ventral surface of the cephalothorax or abdomen. [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]
(Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Collective term for all sternites. Occasionally used as synonym for individual sternite or for fused sternites (sternal plate) of cephalothorax region. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Stomatopoda) Collective term for all sternites. [Stachowitsch, 1992]