lateral abdominal gills

lateral abdominal gills
(ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
In a few genera of Odonata, filamentous (or true abdominal appendages) on either side of the 2nd to 7th or 8th abdominal segments.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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