Meanings
adjectiveintracuticular (not comparable)
- not comparableWithin the cuticle.
Such intracuticular thickenings typically occur around plate articulations, hence the thickenings could indicate a beginning plate differentiation, or alternatively, be the last trace of two plates that have fused.
2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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