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- Pertaining to the hinge area of the carapace of an ostracod.
In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .
2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 10452 more examples
In stratigraphically later genera with histial dimorphism frequently no histial structure and also no velar structure at all is present in the tecnomorphs.
1957, Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, Volume 37, page 203The histial ridge of the heteromorphs is comparatively wide, especially in the anteroventral part, and forms a wide, open cavity —the histial dolon.
1971, Oleg Stepanovich Vi︠a︡lov, Fossil Ostracoda, page 15
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