Definitions

Antrum

• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) Atrium. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) In female reproductive system, invagination of ventral surface (sternite) of first abdominal segment (genital somite). Recieves common opening of both oviducts and openings of seminal receptacles.
  (syn. atrium, genital atrium) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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