Although Crangonya evidently comes very close to Niphargus, it appears to be a good genus, and to differ constantly from Niphargus in the more robust body and in the telson, which is always entire and never cleft as in Niphargus.
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Telson
Synonyms for "telson"
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French
1 entries- telson noun (part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment)
German
1 entries- Telson noun (part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment)
Sample sentences
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The basic number of segments in the abdomen is eleven plus the postsegmental telson which bears the anus, although Matsuda (1976) regards the telson as a twelfth segment.
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The two documented examples of telson abnormalities are on juvenile moults (Fig. 2a, b).
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