Definitions

Sternal bar

• (Taxon-specific: Class Remipedia) In trunk segment, transverse thickening sometimes reinforcing or even replacing sternite. Sternite bar of 14th trunk segment may bear lateral flap (genital flap) which covers gonopore. (bar-like, subtriangular; posterior margin: concave, convex).
  (syn. sternite bar) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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