sternite

() [Baba, 2005].

^{Sternal plastron, based on Munida. [Baba, 2005]}

A calcified plate on the ventral side of a segment between the bases of the appendages. [Warner, 1977] A segment of the ventral wall of the thorax [Ingle, 1983].

One of five transverse fused plates of sternum indicating basic segmentation of cephalothorax [Butler, T.H.].

One of the five transverse fused plates of the sternum indicating the basic segmentation of the cephalothorax [Chace and Hobbs, 1969].

Sclerotized ventral surface of body somite [McLaughlin, 1980].

Sclerotized ventral surface of single body somite [Moore and McCormick, 1969].

The ventral surface of a thoracic body segment [Wilson, 1989].

Ventral part of the thoracic or abdominal somite [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997].

Ventral plate of integument (cf. tergite) [Poore, 2004].

(Order Anostraca):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Sternite of genital segment considered to form ovisac [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Class Cephalocarida):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Cumacea):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). In male, sternite of last (fifth) pereonite bears gonopores. First segments (coxae) of thoracopods may be more or less fused with sternites. (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Tanaidacea):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Gonopores of male located on sternite of last (eighth) thoracic somite (thoracomere). See: tergite [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Decapoda):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). May be fused with other sternites to form sternal plate in cephalothorax. See: episternum, pleurite, tergite [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Amphipoda):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Sternites of anterior division (pleosome) of abdomen may bear sternal gills; in male, sternite of last (seventh) pereon segment bears penes [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Isopoda):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Sternite of fifth (female) or seventh (male) pereon segment bears gonopores. (Syn. sternal plate) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Mysida):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). May be well developed in thoracic of female to accommodate brood pouch (marsupium). (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Stomatopoda):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite); female gonopore located on middle of sixth thoracic somite. (See also pleurite, tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Subclass Branchiura):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). More clearly delimited only on thorax and between maxillae. Postmaxillary spines located on sternite between maxillae, gonopore on sternite of last thoracic somite (fourth thoracomere) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Subclass Copepoda):

The ventral chitinous plate of a body somite [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004].

(Subclass Mystacocarida):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Class Ostracoda):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Occasionally specified in connection with genital somite of female, with fold (intercoxal plate) of sternites which unites coxae of pereopod pairs, or with sternal furca [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Class Remipedia):

Ventral surface of body segment; sternites of trunk segment are sometimes plate-like, sometimes reinforced or reduced to sternal bar. (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Superorder Syncarida):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). In anaspidacean, sternite of eighth thoracomere bears opening of reproductive system (male) or is modified to form spermatheca (female). (See also tergite) [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Thermosbaenacea):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). In male, sternite of last (eighth) thoracomere bears pair of penes; in female, sternite of sixth thoracomere bears gonopores [Stachowitsch, 1992].

(Order Euphausiacea):

Ventral surface of body segment (somite). Sternites of first four abdominal somites (pleomeres) bear median photophores. See: pleurite, tergite [Stachowitsch, 1992].