endopleurite (endoploʻrit)

[ mites; a pleural or lateral piece of the endothorax, as distinguished from an endosternite. The floor of the thoracic cavity [of the crawfish] is seen to be divided into a number of incomplete cells, or chambers, by... apodemal partitions, which... arise partly from the inter sternal, partly from the interepimeral mem IMG:content-0468.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0469.png:[blocks in formation] Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 269.