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aplacophoran

NOUN
  1. deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle

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  • The dorsal conic spine-like structures could be a homology of cuticular spicules of polyplacophorans and aplacophorans. Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb
  • Conchiferans are ‘all molluscs except chitons and aplacophorans’ - i.e. snails, cephalopods, etc.
  • The dorsal conic spine-like structures could be a homology of cuticular spicules of polyplacophorans and aplacophorans.
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