Exoskeleton

The skeleton covering the outside of the body

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Maxilliped

First paired appendage of the thorax. These are modified for feeding

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Pereopods

Pereopods (legs) are usually slender, but in some, a single leg or pair of legs may be stout and some pereiopods end in pincers

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Pleopods

Pleopods are used for swimming, are well developed and, most often present on all abdominal segments.

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Carapace

Shield-like structure coving head and most of thorax

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Telson

The terminal (posterior) unit of the abdomen

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Uropod

An appendage of the last abdominal segment

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Chela

The two distal segments of a cheliped forming a pinching claw

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blotch

A large irregular patch or unsightly mark on the shrimp body

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Rostrum

beak or pointed nose like structure at the front of the shrimp's head ; can be used for attack or defense

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