zygobranchousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

zygobranchous (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia; zygobranchiate.
   • 1947, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (page 447)

     The zygobranchous genera which have been examined alive, namely, Haliotis, Diodora, Emarginula and Puncturella, are all specialized in one way or another, […]

   • 1958, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London (page 210)

     However, it does now seem highly probable that extracellular and not intracellular digestion is primitive in the Mollusca (being present in the chitons and probably in zygobranchous Gastropoda […]