Crustacea glossary

UROSOMITE

(Order Amphipoda):
If abdomen (pleon) is subdivided into anterior pleosome and posterior urosome, one of three segments (somites) of urosome [Stachowitsch, 1992].
(Subclass Copepoda):
Component somite of a urosome [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004].