Definitions

Copulatory pore

• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) In female reprductive system, pore on ventral surface (sternite) of first abdominal segment (genital somite). Opens into seminal receptacle and thus represents, along with two gonopores, third opening of reproductive system. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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