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brachiophore (複数形 brachiophores)

1. The supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.
   • 1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich & ‎Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, ISBN 0813720133, page 73:

     The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.

   • 1953, Raymond Cecil Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Volume 1, page H-98:

     The brachiophore processes may be negligible in the older stocks but were very well developed in some younger forms like Camerella

   • 1970, J. G. Johnson, Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda, ISBN 0813711215, page 89:

     It is readily distinguished from Schizophoria parafragilis by shape and by its widely diverging brachiophore supporting plates.