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- not comparableIn a distodorsal direction
Peropod 3 similar to pereopod 2, but merus additionally with spiniform seta ventrally, and carpus with seven spiniform setae distoventrally and distodorsally.
2008, Nile Bruce, Advances in the Taxonomy and Biogeography of Crustacea in the Southern Hemisphere, page 1662 more examples
Palpus: femur proximally slender, distally much thickened and curved approximately 45 degrees, extending above surface of carapace a distance equal to 1.5 times the height of the eye tubercle; armed distodorsally with small tubercles, distal ring of tubercles lacking, ventrally unarmed.
1934, The American Midland Naturalist, University of Notre Dame, page 674Another type of central tarsal bone fracture courses distodorsally from the proximal aspect of the central tarsal bone in the dorsal plane and breaks out of the dorsal cortex of the bone just proximal to the distal articular surface of the central tarsal bone.
2010, Michael W. Ross, Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in the Horse
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