Definitions

Skeletal duplicature

• Outer chitinous body cover of conchostracans shed during ecdysis, individual duplicatures being very thin whitish translucent layer resembling entire animal when floating in water; may occur also in notostracans and cladocerans. [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
• (Taxon-specific: Order Cladocera) Outer chitinous body cover shed during ecdysis. [McLaughlin, 1980]

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