Definitions

Lunule

• Attachment disc at base of antennule in some parasitic copepods. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) A sucker-like structure located ventrally on the frontal plates on the anterior margin of the flattened cephalothorax of some caligiform copepods. [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) In parasitic copepod, one of two anteroventral sucker-like structures on anterior margin (frontal plate) of head. (crescent-shaped, round). [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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