Animals

Animals

Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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folium

Animals; Spiders

Any pattern of pigment on the dorsum of the abdomen which is fairly broad and leaf-shaped.

fovea

Animals; Spiders

A short median groove on the thoracic part of the carapace which marks the internal attachment of the gastric muscles.

genitalia

Animals; Spiders

All the genital structures.

gossamer

Animals; Spiders

A light film of silk threads, or groups of these floating through the air.

hackled band

Animals; Spiders

The composite threads of the cribellate spiders, spun by cribellum and combed by the calamistrum.

haematodocha

Animals; Spiders

A balloon of elastic connective tissue between groups of seletites in the male palp which distends with blood during insemination causing the selerites to separate and rotate.