Marine Planktonic Copepods

Fig. G12: Structure of the 5th pair of thoracic legs.

A: Male thoracic leg 5 in a calanoid (Centropages hamatus) with pincer-like modification of the last two segments of the exopod of the right leg (after Sars, 1903).
B: Transformation of female P5 in the harpacticoid Phyllodopsyllus bradyi (after Lang, 1948).

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