chalimus
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editNoun
editchalimus (plural chalimi)
- The post-copepodid stage of a caligid parasite, having a frontal filament for attaching to the host
- 2015 September 30, “A Survey of the ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) Gene Superfamily in the Salmon Louse ( Lepeophtheirus salmonis )”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Samples of nauplius, copepodid and chalimus stages consisted of pools of parasites.