Telson

Quick meaning: Telson is a noun meaning (zoology) The part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• telsons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tail, telsid, tentaculum, tongue, postabdomen, tailfin.

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