Definitions

Compartment plate

• In sessile cirripeds (Verrucomorpha, Balanomorpha), rigid articulate skeletal element (valve) forming part of shell wall.
  (syn. mural plate) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• One of several rigidly articulated plates forming wall in sessile cirripeds. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Cirripedia) In unstalked barnacle, one of up to eight overlapping/articulating plates forming wall which encircles body. May include form anterior to posterior end: single rostrum, paired rostrolaterals, laterals, carinolaterals, single carina, and in asymmetrical form, also fixed scutum and fixed tergum.
  (syn. compartmental plate, mural plate) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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