seven segments (pereonites), and an abdomen (pleon) with six segments (pleonites), some of which may be fused. The head is fused with the first segment...

exuviae such as a split median line or disjunction of carapace and first pleonite. Due to that and the disposition of the specimens probably represent a...

bring food to the four sets of jaws. The abdomen has five segments called pleonites, each with a pair of biramous pleopods. These are modified into swimming...

uropods (a character shared with some other isopod groups), the fusion of pleonites 5, 4 and sometimes 3 to the pleotelson, and absence of the first pleopod...

almost smooth with light spots. In adults the plates of the posterior (pleonites) fuse with each other after moulting. Like all other members of the family...

margin. The four anterior pleonites (parts of the abdomen of crustaceans called pleon) are long and wide, while the fifth pleonite is relatively reduced and...

to the family: the telson is fused to the last abdominal segment (last pleonite), the dorsal part of the mandible has a boat shape (naviculoid), exopods...

dorsal B dorsal scale-seta C cephalon, frontal D cephalon, dorsal E pleonites 4, 5, telson and uropods F antennula G antenna – via ResearchGate. Helmut...

flattened where along the posterior margin there is a row of long setospines. Pleonites can bear one pair of pleopods where the exopodites are long and multisegmented...