The life stages of parasitic copepod species marked by their secure attachment to a host by a frontal filament. The chalimus stages follow the free-swimming copepodid stage and precede the sub-adult stages where the organism is capable of detaching from its filament to move across the surface of its host.
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Term name (PrefLabel)
Chalimus
Definition
The life stages of parasitic copepod species marked by their secure attachment to a host by a frontal filament. The chalimus stages follow the free-swimming copepodid stage and precede the sub-adult stages where the organism is capable of detaching from its filament to move across the surface of its host.
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Sources/references
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073539https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783605001785
Mapping to other terminologies
Follows S115 (copepodites) http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/S11/current/S115/