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Oeder I. PHYLLOPODA * 
Body naked, or with only the head and thorax covered 
by the carapace; feet many, from eleven pairs to sixty; 
joints foliaceous and gill-like, chiefly fitted for respiration; 
eyes two or three, in some placed at the end of movable 
pedicels ; antennae one or two pairs, generally small, and not 
assisting the animal in swimming; mandibles generally 
without palpi. 
Bam. APOBIBM, Baird . 
One pair of antennae, short and styliform; eyes two, 
sessile ; young only with one eye ; feet sixty pairs, all 
branchial; nearly the whole body covered by a large shield- 
shaped carapace ; body formed of numerous rings. 
Dr. Baird observes, “ The number of articulations or 
separate pieces of which the body of these animals is com- 
posed, is extraordinary. Schaeffer, with wonderful patience, 
undertook the task of counting them, and in a table, in 
which he enumerates them seriatim , reckons the number to 
be 1,802,604 ; and Latreille says that we may safely take 
them to be not less than two millions” (Brit. Ent. p. 25). 
# <bvKhov, a leaf, and ttovs , 7ro5os, a foot. 
