Definitions

Pleural lobe

• See: Epimere   [Martin, 2005]
• See epimere. [McLaughlin, 1980]
• Ventral expansion of the abdominal tergite. [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Cephalocarida) Lateral part of integument (as opposed to sternite = ventral surface and tergite = dorsal surface); in first seven trunk somites (thoracomeres) developed as ventrolaterally directed lobes, in last (eighth) thoracomere small or reduced. (acute, rounded).
  (syn. pleuron) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Remipedia) Pleurite. [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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