Definitions

Acicle

• Antennal scale reduced to a spine. [Williams, 1984]
• Small scaphocerite or antennal scale. [Poore, 2004]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) Spine-shaped outer branch (exopod) of antenna; represents reduced antennal scale (scaphocerite). May also refer to spine-like ophthalmic scale on eyestalk. (unarmed, spinose). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Leptostraca) Ocular scale. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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