Definitions

Abdominal process

• Finger-like projection ( one to several ) on dorsal surface of cladoceran abdomen; may help to retain eggs in brood chamber. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Cladocera) Finger-like projection(s) on dorsal surface of abdomen. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Cladocera) One of typically two dorsal processes projecting from border of trunk and postabdomen. Considered to serve in closing off brood chamber posteriorly.
  (syn. abdominal outgrowth) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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