clasping apparatus

clasping apparatus
(ARTHROPODA: Crustacea)
A movable, heavily sclerotized sclerite of male ostracods, that articulates with the midportion of the peniferum in a socket near the ventral cardo and the loop of the spermatic tube; probably a tactile organ.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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