Definitions

Cincinnuli

• Minute hooked processes interlocking halves of petasma (Dendrobranchiata). [Poore, 2004]
• Minute interlocking processes projecting from the dorsomesial margins of the petasmal endopods (Fig. 4B).
  (pl. cincinnulus) [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]

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