post-fibers

post-fibers
(ARTHROPODA: Crustacea)
In Decapoda, giant nerve fibers in crayfish that supply the deep parts of the abdominal flexors and are responsible for escape reaction; see press-fibers.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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