Comparative limb morphology in major crustacean groups: the coxa-basis joint in postmandibular limbs
Comparative limb morphology in major crustacean groups: the coxa-basis joint in postmandibular limbs
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主要甲壳动物类群的肢体形态比较:下颌后肢的基基关节
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1998
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G. Boxshall
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G. Boxshall
Although it may have been plesiomorphic to a wider group of arthropods, one characteristic of the superclass Crustacea is the possession of a nauplius larva bearing three pairs of functional appendages, antennules, antennae and mandibles. The nauplius larva exhibits basically the same organization across the range of crustacean classes in which it is retained, and it is in the immediate postnaupliar phase, during the formation of the cephalon with its complement of five appendages, that the great diversity of crustacean form first becomes apparent. Cephalization has been a key engine driving crustacean evolution and diversification, and the specialization of the postmandibular limbs to form part of the cephalic feeding apparatus has been a major part of the process (Walossek, 1993). Classical comparative anatomy has revealed a wealth of new data concerning the musculature of the maxillules, maxillae and maxillipeds (= first thoracopods) in the Crustacea (Boxshall and Huys, 1992).