chalimus stage

chalimus stage
(ARTHROPODA: Crustacea)
In Monstrilloida, a larval infective stage that fixes to the host with a frontal filament; parasites of various marine invertebrates.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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