Definitions

Ventral comb

• (Taxon-specific: Class Cephalocarida) Row of setae or bristles on posteroventral margin of last abdominal somite or telson. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Cephalocarida) Transverse series of ventral setae on telson (longer setae) and, in most cephalocarids, on posterior margin of 19th segment (shorter setae). (on telson: row shorter than ot equal to telson width).
  (syn. comb row) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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