Gonopods are specialized appendages of various arthropods used in reproduction or egg-laying. In males, they facilitate the transfer of sperm from male...

insert his gonopods to extrude the vulvae before bending his body to deposit sperm onto his gonopods and reinserting the "charged" gonopods into the female...

crabs. Sakai & Türkay (2013) regarded the shape of the gonopods as more suited for this. As gonopods are important in sexual reproduction, they are less...

9 10, 11 12, 13 14, 15 16 17 18 (telson) Leg pairs Forcipules 1 2, 3 4, 5 6, 7, 8 9, 10 11, 12 13, 14 15 (antenna-like snare legs) (gonopod) (anus)...

(harvestmen), millipedes, and some crustaceans use modified appendages such as gonopods or penises to transfer the sperm directly to the female. However, most...

distinguished by dorsal grooves on most body segments and a dumb-bell shaped gonopod aperture. Notable groups within the Paradoxosomatidae include the dragon...

Tömösváry • Ozopore • Ultimate legs Cyphopods • Forcipules • Millipede gonopods Notable species Eumillipes persephone • Eopauropus balticus • Scolopendra...

the third body segment behind the head, near the second pair of legs. Gonopod Gonopodium Nikita Kluge (2004). "Morphology of mayflies". The Phylogenetic...

is achieved, the now postlarval stadia (about five more stages) develop gonopods, sensory pores, more antennal segments, and more ocelli. All mature lithobiomorph...

one pair of legs on the seventh segment in males being modified to form gonopods used for sperm transfer. Individuals may live for 2–3 years. Harpaphe haydeniana...

(the first leg pair of the 7th ring) is modified into a single pair of gonopods, leaving only 30 pairs of walking legs. Many species deviate from the typical...

specialised in the males for fertilisation, and are referred to as the gonopods. At the end of the pleon is the tail fan, comprising a pair of biramous...

morphology of freshwater crabs varies very little, so the form of the gonopod (first abdominal appendage, modified for insemination) is of critical importance...

first and second abdominal pleopods may be modified in the male to form gonopods (accessory copulatory appendages). The appendages of the last segment are...

(harvestmen), millipedes, and some crustaceans use modified appendages such as gonopods or penises to transfer the sperm directly to the female. However, most...

apparatus visible inside the abdomen. Females are characterized by two gonopods in the shape of a W at the end of their abdomens. Like most insects, head...

Tömösváry • Ozopore • Ultimate legs Cyphopods • Forcipules • Millipede gonopods Notable species Eumillipes persephone • Eopauropus balticus • Scolopendra...

in adult males are modified into sperm-transferring structures called gonopods. In some millipedes, the first leg pair in males may be reduced to tiny...

Island. The six species are distinguished primarily by differences in gonopod structure, and to a lesser extent, body size. The westernmost species,...

the 30 usually found in the order Chordeumatida. In both species, the gonopod complex in adult males includes three leg pairs (pairs 8 through 10) rather...

the effectiveness of the mating action. These specific legs are called gonopods and they help clasp and hold the female in place while the male injects...

literature. For example, millipedes with gonopods are listed by numbers that exclude leg pairs that become gonopods. Animals have been selected so that each...

segments and longer gonopods (male reproductive appendages). O. coarctata is unique within the genus Orthomorpha in that the gonopods have a single, simple...

2”. The form 1 male gonopod has been described to be shaped “short-curved”. This gonopod shape differs from other species’ gonopods in the same genus,...

placement (cephalic side) of the cingulum on the telopodite of the male gonopod. Keeton, W. T. (1959). "A revision of the milliped genus Brachoria (Polydesmida:...

Byzantorhopalum Gonopods of Byzantorhopalum rossicum (A-D = male | E = female) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda...

legs (pereiopods for walking, and pleopods for swimming), sexual organs (gonopods), and parts of the tail (uropods). Typically, each body segment carries...

between a sexual and a non-sexual form. In their sexual form, they have gonopods (mating legs) in the seventh body segment, which they lose when they moult...

can be distinguished from other related species by the morphology of its gonopods. "Himalayapotamon atkinsonianum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species....

distinguished by the position of the ozopores, the shape of the ocelli and the gonopod legs, the presence of accessory claws on the juveniles, and the presence...