Definitions

Cervical sulcus

• Groove or series of grooves sometimes present on carapace; mesially transverse, laterally oblique, and separates gastric and hepatic regions from cardiac and branchial regions.
  (syn. (or groove)) [Butler, T. H.]
• Mesially transverse and laterally oblique groove of the carapace extending from the anterior limit of the hepatic region towards the midline of the carapace (Fig. 2B). [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Mysida) Transverse groove across anterior region of carapace at level of mandibles.
  (syn. cervical groove) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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