Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
Pedigerous — Pe*dig er*ous, a. [Pedi + gerous.] (Zo[ o]l.) Bearing or having feet or legs. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pedigerous — pə̇ˈdijərəs adjective Etymology: ped (I) + gerous : having feet : footed the three pedigerous segments of the adult insect … Useful english dictionary
pedigerous — adj. [L. pes, foot; gerare, to carry] Bearing footlike appendages … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
pedigerous — having or bearing feet Bearing and Carrying … Phrontistery dictionary
pedigerous — pe·dig·er·ous … English syllables
cephalothorax — A fused dorsal covering resulting when the carapace extends dorsally and laterally and/or posteriorly and fuses dorsally with one or more thoracic segments [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]. All fused somites of the cephalon (head) and thorax, covered in … Crustacea glossary
genital complex — (Subclass Copepoda): Part of body formed from the fifth pedigerous and genital double somites [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004] … Crustacea glossary
gymnoplean — (Subclass Copepoda): Used ot the body plan in which the prosome urosome boundary lies posterior to the fifth pedigerous somite [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004] … Crustacea glossary
metasome — In copepods, part of prosome consisting of free thoracic somites in front of major articulation; in amphipods first three abdominal somites bearing unmodified pleopods [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. Part of prosome, consisting of free thoracic… … Crustacea glossary
neck — (Subclass Copepoda): A narrow part of the body separating the head from the trunk in highly metamorphic parasites, typically formed by a pedigerous somite [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004]. (Class Ostracoda): In parasitic copepod, relatively narrow… … Crustacea glossary
