telson

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Definition of telson

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noun

The part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.

“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.”
“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.”
“The two documented examples of telson abnormalities are on juvenile moults (Fig. 2a, b).”

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλσον (télson, “headland”).

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