Definitions

Incisur

• Terminal process of mandible, cutting blade, often toothed (more properly, incisor process).
  (syn. incisor process) [Poore, 2004]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) An anterior indentation (ranging from slight to deep and even slit-like) of the valves of the carapace; it acts like an oar-lock for the rowing antennae of many swimming Myodocopa.
  (syn. incisure, rostral incisur) [Cohen, Peterson, and Maddocks, in press]

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