ADJECTIVE
- relating to or belonging to or characteristic of any worms of the phylum Annelida
How To Use annelidan In A Sentence
- Vertebrates and yet show no particular annelidan affinities? Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
- The annelidan affinities of the Echiura are further strengthened by recent work demonstrating a metameric or segmented arrangement of their nervous system as is typical of the annelids.
- One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.
- The high degree of diversity of the annelidan nervous system may seem to weaken the power of the ropeladder-like nervous system to act as an apomorphic characteristic for a taxon comprising Annelida and Arthropoda.
- At first glance, the animals in the annelidan and molluskan groups look like they have little in common.
- One widely-mooted suggestion is that planktotrophic larvae, typified by the annelidan trochophore and echinoid pluteus, existed long before the metazoan radiations evident in the Cambrian fossil record.
- As a rule, annelidan segments are generated from a posterior growth zone, arising and developing sequentially, from anterior to posterior.
- Cell lineage analyses, mainly conducted on annelidan. and molluscan embryos, suggested that the ultimate fates of blastomeres are tremendously conserved.