Marine Planktonic Copepods
Calanus finmarchicus ( female ) ( schematic ventral view )

Fig. G2: Calanus finmarchicus (female) (schematic ventral view) (Razouls, 1996 in P.-P. Grassé, Traité de Zoologie VII (2), Edit. Masson).

CA: anterior body; CP or Urs: posterior body or urosome; T: head; Th: thorax.

A1: antennule; A2: antenna; ae: aesthetascs; B1: basis 1; B2: basis 2; Enp: endopod; Exp: exopod; F: furca; fr: rostral threads; FR: rostral filaments; Li: labium; Ls: labrum; Md: mandible; Mx1: maxillule; Mx2: maxilla; Mxp: maxilliped; og: genital operculum; P: mandibular palp; P1: swimming leg 1, etc.; R: rostrum; Re: exopod (outer ramus); Ri: endopod (inner ramus); S: seta; San: anal segment; Se: outer seta; Sgn: genital segment; Si: inner seta; St: terminal seta; Th1: thoracic segment 1, etc.

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