Crossword-Solution: UROPODS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The uropods and telson form a "tail-fan." One of the most curious points in the organization of some Mysidacea is the possession of a pair of statocysts in the endopodites of the uropods.

The uropods do not form a tail-fan, but are slender forked rods carrying comb-like rows of spines, said to be used in cleaning the anterior appendages from the mud among which these animals generally live.

The uropods no longer form a tail-fan, but are adapted for firmly wedging the hind part of the body into the coils of the shell.

After a time it moults, and the uropods are set free, the chelæ lose their hooked tips, the carapace assumes nearly its final shape (the food-yolk having been largely absorbed), and the young Crayfish leaves the protection of its parent, to shift for itself.

The abdomen is soft and spirally twisted to fit into the interior of the spiral shell, and the uropods, instead of forming a tail-fan, are modified into holding organs, with roughened, file-like surfaces which can be pressed outwards against the walls of the shell, and wedge the body so firmly that an attempt to drag the animal forcibly from its retreat often results in tearing it in half.