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scaphopod

NOUN
  1. burrowing marine mollusk

How To Use scaphopod In A Sentence

  • Moreover, cephalopods or both scaphopods and cephalopods, are closely related to, and descended from, laterally compressed helcionelloids.
  • Most scaphopods are found in waters greater than 6 m.
  • Like scaphopods, bivalves have a retractile foot which they use to burrow.
  • By contrast, a number of others (including scaphopod and some bivalve mollusks, as well as many annelids) deviate from rotational symmetry to a much greater degree than PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • It is also now generally thought that they were ancestral to the Cephalopoda and Scaphopoda as well.
  • The diagram above shows the early cleavages of the embryo of the scaphopod mollusc, Dentalium. The Panda's Thumb: June 2006 Archives
  • Despite their unusual features, it is generally believed that the closest relatives of scaphopods are the bivalves.
  • Other molluscs are present but less common, including bivalves, scaphopods, orthoconic cephalopods, tentaculitids, and small, indeterminate juvenile ammonoids.
  • Scaphopods burrow by projecting their foot into the substrate and contracting pedal retractor muscles to pull the animal downward.
  • In molluscs, engrailed expression surrounds the shell gland of snails and scaphopods.
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