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- noun Plural form of
pleopod .
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Examples
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The arrows point at the pair of modified pleopods.
Is it a boy or a girl? AYDIN 2008
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The arrows point at the pair of modified pleopods.
Archive 2008-02-01 AYDIN 2008
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The first two pleopods of males are modified to transfer sperm to the female, while females have a calcified area between the fourth pair of periopods used to receive the male's spermatophore during copulation.
Crustacea 2008
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So, the absence of modified pleopods means the specimen is a female.
Is it a boy or a girl? AYDIN 2008
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Those are the modified endopodites of pleopods inner branches of biramous abdominal limbs that have evolved to perform the function of sperm transfer.
Is it a boy or a girl? AYDIN 2008
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The abdomen has 6 segments, of which the first five bear a pair of pleopods.
Crustacea 2008
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Their abdomen bears pleopods (swimming legs) on the first five segments.
Crustacea 2008
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He then releases sperm which she sweeps into her marsupium by vibrating her pleopods.
Crustacea 2008
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Sperm are released while the male pleopods vibrate rapidly.
Crustacea 2008
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It is best to try to sex the largest specimens; I don't know how early during their development the pleopods of males become easily distinguishable from those of females.
Is it a boy or a girl? AYDIN 2008
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