pleopod การใช้

• Males have 5, 4 or 3 pairs of pleopods.
• The form of the pleopods varies between the sexes.
• These are the sites of attachment of the pleopods ( swimming legs ).
• Mature females have a small claw on the fifth pereiopod, and enlarged pleopods.
• The pleon plates on the sides of the body are deep with strong pleopods.
• The host maintains the microenvironment of the burrow by circulating water with its pleopods.
• The fourth pleopod is longer than the others in males and has a specialized reproductory function.
• The male has  like all members of the family Bodotriidae  five pairs of pleopods.
• The post-larva or juvenile stage is characterised by the use of the pleopods for locomotion.
• In others, the endopod is folded inside the adjoining exopod ( outer branch of the pleopod ).
• "L . amboinesis " lay eggs which the adult shrimp keep attached to their pleopods.
• The appendices are called pleopods or swimmerets, and can be used for more purposes than just swimming.
• Here, they are aerated by the pleopods ( swimming legs ) until they are ready to hatch.
• The endopod of the fifth pleopod of the male is widened distally and has an irregularly rounded outline.
• Underneath the thorax behind the walking legs are paired pleopods ( swimmerets ) used for swimming and brooding eggs.
• In the males the flagellum of the second antenna reaches beyond the carapace; moreover, they possess pleopods.
• Most crustaceans, such as shrimp, will usually swim by paddling with special swimming legs ( pleopods ).
• By the last mysis stage, the beginnings of pleopods have appeared on the first five segments of the abdomen.
• The first and second abdominal pleopods may be modified in the male to form gonopods ( accessory copulatory appendages ).
• The remaining pleopods can be similar to those of the females, or reduced in size, or entirely absent.