arthrobranchian.

1878 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 761 When the podobranchiæ are removed, six other gills come into view. They are attached..to the flexible membrane which unites the coxopodites of all the thoracic limbs to the thorax, save the first and last, and may be termed the anterior arthrobranchiæ.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xi. 177 The third maxillipeds are without the usual two pairs of rudimentary arthrobranchiæ, and the pleon of the male is without appendages on the first five segments.

1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) ix. 155 At the base of each of the limbs VIII. to XII. are two arthrobranchiæ, an anterior and a posterior one.

1996 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 16 482 (caption) Uca vocans, the posterior arthrobranchia on the fourth sternite and its appendage.

2007 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. A. 147 146/1 This crab possesses eight, laterally disposed gill pairs, arranged as two arthrobranchiae and six pleurobranchiae.