- aplacophoran
- apla·coph·o·ran
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aplacophoran
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aplacophoran — n. 1. one of the {aplacophora}; a deep water wormlike mollusk lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle. Syn: solenogaster [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
aplacophoran — /ap leuh kof euhr euhn/, n. Zool. solenogaster. [ < NL Aplacophor(a) the class name (a A 6 + Gk plak , s. of pláx flat object, tablet + o O + phora, neut. pl. of phoros bearing, PHOROUS) + AN] * * * … Universalium
aplacophoran — noun deep water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle • Syn: ↑solenogaster • Hypernyms: ↑gastropod, ↑univalve • Member Holonyms: ↑Solenogastres, ↑order Solenogastres, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Halwaxiida — taxobox image caption= Halkieria regnum=Animalia fossil range=Early to Middle Cambrian superphylum=Lophotrochozoa phylum = See text Halwaxiida or halwaxiids is a proposed clade loosely uniting scale bearing Cambrian animals, which may lie in the… … Wikipedia
Debate about Cambrian Lophotrochozoans — Since 1990 there has been intense debate among paleontologists about the evolution in the Early Cambrian period of the super phylum Lophotrochozoa, which is thought to include the modern molluscs, annelid worms and brachiopods, as well as their… … Wikipedia
mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… … Universalium
solenogaster — noun deep water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle • Syn: ↑aplacophoran • Hypernyms: ↑gastropod, ↑univalve • Member Holonyms: ↑Solenogastres, ↑order Solenogastres, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Odontogriphus — Temporal range: Burgess Shale … Wikipedia
solenogaster — /seuh lee neuh gas teuhr, len euh /, n. Zool. any of a group of wormlike mollusks, class Solenogastres (formerly Aplacophora), inhabiting deep ocean layers and having fine limy spicules on the covering mantle. Also called aplacophoran. [ < NL,… … Universalium
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
