Definitions

Ventral groove

• (Taxon-specific: Order Leptostraca) Elongate median line between thoracopod bases on ventral side of thorax. Food is trapped by thoracopods, passed anteriorly along ventral groove, and transferred to mouth.
  (syn. food groove) [Stachowitsch, 1992]

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