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English: Ventral view of Limulus polyphemus.
1 to 6, The six prosomatic pairs of appendages.

abd, the solid opisthosomatic carapace.
tels, the post-anal spine (not the telson as the lettering would seem to imply, but only its post-anal portion).

operc, the fused first pair of mesosomatic appendages forming the genital operculum.
(From Parker and Harwell, Text book of Zoology, after Leuckart.)
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Source Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Vol. 2, Page 302
Author Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911

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