somite (somit)

[ pieces of another somite, or both. Those sclerites which ordinarily remain distinct, and thus can be identified, take special names, as tergite, pleurite, sternite, scutum, præscutum, etc., epimer on, epipleuron, etc. Appendages soties are limbs in the broadest sense, under whatever modifications; and these modifications are usually greatest at the cephalic and caudal ends of the body, as into eyestalks, antennæ, palpi, mandibles, maxillæ, maxillipeds or gnathopodites, etc., of the head, and stings, claspers, or other anal armature. Intermediate somitic appendages are ordinary legs and wings, as of the thorax of insects, and the pereiopods, pleopods, chelæ, rhipidura, telson, etc., of the thorax and abdomen of crustaceans. In worms such appendages chiefly occur in the form of parapodia (neuropodia and no to podia). See sclerite, and cuts under Amphithoë, Apus, Buthus, Scorpionidæ, Blatti dæ, and cockroach.