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What does exopod mean?

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Noun
  1. (zoology) The outer ramus of a biramous limb of a crustacean.
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Exopod unsegmented, with 2 long and 1 shorter unequal terminal aesthetascs, and 1 simple seta.
We used a light microscope and 400 x magnification to inspect the second antenna and the associated exopod and endopod.
Our cladistic analysis confirms that the taxa included form a solid clade based on the apomorphic presence of a diaresis on the exopod of the uropod.
The protopod and the endopod are of about the same length, while the exopod is slightly longer.
Legs 1 and 2 have relatively long rami with the endopod noticeably longer than the exopod.
A diaresis is also present on the exopod in the Laomediidae and in some taxa in the Axiidae.

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