Definitions

Toothed furrow

• (Taxon-specific: Subclass Mystacocarida) Pair of elongate, toothed depressions, one in dorsolateral surface of each thoracoabdominal somite, in maxillipedal somite (maxillipedal lateral toothed furrow), and in posterior region of cephalon (maxillary lateral toothed furrow). Number of teeth may be of taxonomic importance. (undivided, bifid). [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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