Definitions
Cephalosome
- Head region when this includes only somites bearing maxillipeds or gnathopods, or both. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
- (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) Head region with one or two fused thoracic somites (Copepoda). [McLaughlin, 1980]
- (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) One of three divisions (tagmata) of body (cephalosome, metasome, urosome); consists of head and one or two thoracic somites (thoracomeres) fused to it. Cephalosome and metasome together from prosome. (See also cephalothorax). [Stachowitsch, 1992]
- (Taxon-specific: Subclass Copepoda) The anterior tagma of the body in copepods, covered by the dorsal cephalic shield and comprising 5 cephalic somites and the first thoracic (maxilliped-bearing) somite. [Boxshall and Halsey, 2004]
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Crustacea Glossary. Crustacea Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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