different between prosoma vs ophithosoma

English

pro- (“front”) +? soma (“body”), from Ancient Greek ???? (sôma, “body”).

prosoma (plural prosomas or prosomata)

(zoology) The front segment of a body which is divided into two or more segments, especially the cephalothorax of an arachnid or crustacean.
- 1996, Michael J. Roberts, Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins 1996, p. 12:
  The front part, called the cephalothorax (or prosoma), is enclosed within a relatively hard and unyielding chitinous shell.

prosoma m (plural prosomas)

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