Tag: Abdomen
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Ecdysis: Nature’s Grand Wardrobe Change
Darling, buckle up your exoskeletons because we’re about to sashay into the most FABULOUS biological runway show ever – it’s ECDYSIS, honey! 💃🐛✨ Picture this: You’re a gorgeous little arthropod, feeling a bit tight in your current outfit. But fear not! Mother Nature’s got you covered with the most extravagant wardrobe change this side of…
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Cephalothorax aka prosoma
The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind.[1] (The terms prosoma and opisthosoma are equivalent to cephalothorax and abdomen in some groups. The terms prosoma and opisthosoma may be preferred by some researchers in cases such as arachnids, where there is neither fossil nor embryonic evidence animals in this class have ever had separate heads and thoraxes, and…
