Definitions

Vibratory plate

• (Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Branchial plate. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
• (Taxon-specific: Class Ostracoda) Flat plate (with marginal setae) located proximally and laterally on limb (an epipod in Myodocopa, but podocopan homologies uncertain); used to circulate water.
  (syn. branchial plate) [Cohen, Peterson, and Maddocks, in press]

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