Editing Decapod (section)

==Anatomy==
{{main|Decapod anatomy}}
Decapods can have as many as 38 appendages,<ref name="Decapod_characters">{{cite web|url=http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Decapoda/characters.html|website=University of Bristol: Decapoda characters|title=Decapoda characters and anatomy|access-date=11 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110024412/http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Fossilgroups/Decapoda/characters.html|archive-date=10 November 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> arranged in one pair per body segment. As the name Decapoda (from the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|el|[[:wikt:δέκα|δέκα]]}}, ''{{lang|el|[[:wikt:deca-|deca-]]}}'', "ten", and {{lang|el|[[:wikt:πούς|πούς]] / ποδός}}, ''[[:wikt:-pod|-pod]]'', "foot") implies, ten of these appendages are considered legs. They are the [[pereiopod]]s, found on the last five thoracic segments.<ref name="Decapod_characters" /> In many decapods, one pair of these "legs" has enlarged pincers, called [[chela (organ)|chelae]], with the legs being called chelipeds. In front of the pereiopods are three pairs of [[maxilliped]]s that function as feeding appendages. The head has five pairs of appendages, including [[Arthropod mouthparts|mouthparts]], antennae, and antennules. There are five more pairs of appendages on the abdomen. They are called [[pleopod]]s. There is one final pair called [[uropod]]s, which, with the [[telson]], form the tail fan.<ref name="Decapod_characters" />
[[File:Haeckel Decapoda.jpg|thumb|right|"Decapoda" from [[Ernst Haeckel|Ernst Haeckel's]] ''[[Kunstformen der Natur]]'', 1904]]