- This is the tail segment.

The American lobster (Homarus americanus), like many other marine crustaceans, incubates its eggs beneath its tail segments.

There was, it seemed, enough of the body included with the tail segment to coordinate the whole, even though contact with the head had been lost.

But the tail segment of the caterpillar had almost closed the gap.

The abdomen is mostly brown except for the tail segment, which is white and has a large fluffy tuft.

Both the regulatory protein, and the morphogenic protein are involved in the development of the tail segment.

Peel and devein shrimp, leaving last tail segment on.

Most of its body is yellowish in color, except for its blackish pincers, final tail segments, cephalothorax and part of the abdomen.

And far to the rear along the worm's surface, Paul heard the beat of the goaders pounding the tail segments.

He said seriously, "The male head will, naturally, fertilize a number of young female tail segments of other group entities, but there is a problem.