Limulus Polyphemus

“Ventral view of the posterior carapace or meso-metasomatic (opisthosomatic) fusion of Limulus polyphemus. The soft integument and limbs of the mesosoma have been removed as well as all the viscera and muscles, so that the inner surface of the terga of these somites with their entopophyses are seen. The unsegmented dense chitinous sternal plate of the metasoma (XIII to XVIII) is not removed.” — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910

Keywords

dorsal, polyphemus, Limulus, Monomeniscous, Tergum, Somite, Metasoma

Galleries

Spiders, Mites and Scorpions

Source

The Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (New York: The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, 1910)II:290

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