FIGURE 8 in A clearly identifiable postlarva in the life cycle of a new species of Pliciloricus (Loricifera) from the deep sea of the Angola Basin *

FIGURE 8. Pliciloricus diva sp. n., interference contrast light micrographs. A, exuvium of seventh larval instar with retracted introvert containing type I postlarva and adult (same specimens as drawn in Fig. 7A–C); B, focus on enclosed adult; C, anterior region with focus on both stages enclosed into larval exuvium (arrows point to different thickness of cuticle of simplified type I postlarva); D, ornamentation of midventral plica of postlarval lorica shining through larval cuticle; E, young adult female enclosed in reduced type II postlarva and exuvium of retracted seventh larval instar; F, habitus of paratypic Higgins-larva.