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What is a pleopod?

What is a pleopod? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (zoology) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean.
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And the heaviest infestation was seen off Kodiak Island with 24,000 worms per pleopod at a locality appropriately named, if you are a crab egg, Terror Bay.
Eggs were then carefully teased off pleopod setae with jeweler's forceps and stored after being wrapped in cool, damp paper towels to minimize evaporative weight loss.
Upon extrusion, eggs were removed from the pleopods by grasping the top of the pleopod with forceps and scraping the eggs from the pleopod.
Relative pleopod length as an indicator of size at sexual maturity in slipper and spiny Hawaiian lobsters.
Todd Zimmerman corrected this based on the form of the pleopod.
At six localities the infestations exceeded 1000 worms per pleopod.

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