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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 171caudal pore (NEMATA) The spinneret.caudal process (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Ostracoda, the posterior,upward projection <strong>of</strong> the valve border.caudal ramus pl. rami (ARTHRO: Crustacea) One <strong>of</strong> paired appendages,usually rodlike or bladelike, sometimes filamentousand multiarticular just anterior to the anal segment ortelson; caudal filaments; caudal style; cercus; cercopod;furcal ramus; stylet.caudal setae see cercuscaudal shield (SIPUN) A flat and circular or sub-conical, furrowedor grooved, horny cap at the posterior extremity <strong>of</strong>the trunk.caudal siphon (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Ostracoda, the posteroventralopening in the valve border, sometimes a tubularstructure.caudal style see caudal ramuscaudal supplements (NEMATA) Papillate glandular structureson the ventral surface in the caudal region <strong>of</strong> the male.caudal sympathetic system see stomogastric nervoussystemcaudal vesicle (ARTHRO: Insecta) In braconid larvae, the hindguteverted through the anus forming a vesicle responsiblefor about one third <strong>of</strong> the total gaseous exchange.caudal wing (NEMATA) The bursa.caudate a. [L. cauda, tail] 1. Bearing a tail or tail-like appendage.2. (MOLL) Having the columella <strong>of</strong> a univalve shellelongated at the base.caudocephalad adv. [L. cauda, tail; Gr. kephale, head] Directedtoward the head from the caudal region.caudula n.; pl. -lae [L. dim. cauda, tail] A little tail.caul n. [L. caulis, stalk] (ARTHRO: Insecta) The fat bodies <strong>of</strong>larvae, thought to produce the organs <strong>of</strong> the future adults;epiploon.caulescent a. [L. caulis, stalk] Being intermediate betweensessile and stalked.cauliculus n.; pl. -li [L. dim. caulis, stalk] (ARTHRO: Insecta)

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