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| Huys, R.; Boxshall, G.A.; Lincoln, R.J.. |
| The discovery of a new stage in the life cycle of the Tantulocarida is reported. A sexual female, collected from a deep-sea harpacticoid copepod host, was removed from the trunk sac of the preceding tantulus larva. This female is a free-living and nonfeeding stage which presumably mates with the free-swimming adult male previously described. The female comprises a cephalothorax, probably incorporating 2 limbless thoracic somites, 2 free pedigerous trunk somites, and 3 limbless trunk somites. It also possesses paired antennules, the only well-defined cephalic appendages present at any stage in tantulocaridan life history. There is a median genital aperture, the copulatory pore, located ventrally on the cephalothorax at about the level of the incorporated... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1993 |
URL: http://www.vliz.be/nl/open-marien-archief?module=ref&refid=7259 |
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