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Scaphocerite

Antennal scale (Fig. 2). [Williams, 1984]
Exopod of antenna.
(syn. scale, squama) [McLaughlin, 1980]
Exopod(ite) of antenna in Eumalacostraca;[Similar structure occurs on antennules of Leptostraca.].
(syn. scale) [Moore and McCormick, 1969]
Lateral plate attached to distal margin of second article of antenna, equivalent to exopod (sometimes anntennal scale or acicle when small).
(syn. antennal scale, acicle) [Poore, 2004]
Laterally rigid lamellate exopod of the antenna; the antennal scale (Fig, 1). [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997]
Platelike exopod of antenna of shrimps (see "Antennal scale") (Fig. 13). [Hobbs and Jass, 1988]
See antennal scale. [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977]
(Taxon-specific: Order Decapoda) In antenna, variously shaped outer branch (exopod) projecting from peduncle. (broad, flat, lanceolate, ovoid, rounded, slender; serrate, setose).
(syn. antennal scale, squama) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Mysida) Antennal scale. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Stomatopoda) Antennal scale. [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Superorder Syncarida) In antennae of anaspidacean, scale-like outer branch (exopod) arising from second segment of peduncle. May also refer to small exopod in antenna of bathynellacean. (anaspidacean: longer/shorter than first two segments of endopod).
(syn. antennal scale) [Stachowitsch, 1992]
(Taxon-specific: Order Euphausiacea) Scale-shaped outer branch (exopod) of each antenna.
(syn. antennal scale, squama) [Stachowitsch, 1992]