Definitions

Inter-antennular septum

• A median, ventrally directed, cuticular outgrowth that separates the two cavities into which each antennule is retracted.
  See: Orbito-antennulary pits   [Ingle, 1980]
• Plate in some malacostracans that separates one antennular cavity from other.
  (syn. proepistome) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• Plate separating antennular cavities in some malacostracans.
  (syn. preopistome) [McLaughlin, 1980]
• The plate which separates the two antennular cavities from each other, formed by the union of a slender anterior process of the epistome and the front. [Ingle, 1983]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) On anterior margin of carapace, median, ventrally directed, cuticular outgrowth extending from front to proepis-tome; separates left and right antennules as well as cavities into which each antennule may be retracted. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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