siphonapteranとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Siphonaptera +‎ -an

形容詞

siphonapteran (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the order Siphonaptera of fleas.

名詞

siphonapteran (複数形 siphonapterans)

1. Any species of the order Siphonaptera, a flea.
   • 1987, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa, page 206,

     Absence of peripheral singlets, though with varying numbers of central singlets, is seen not only in mecopterans and siphonapterans but also in mycetophilid dipterans, and trichopterans.

   • 1998, Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland, Principles of Insect Pathology, page 396,

     Members of the genus Blastocrithidia are common pathogens of dipterans, hemipterans, and siphonapterans.

   • 2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174,

     The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.