Zoological terms

Zoological terms

Terms in relation to animals, such as mammals, birds, reptiles or fish.

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abdominal process

Zoology; Zoological terms

( ARTHRO: Crustacea) In Branchiopoda, fingerlike projections on the do rsal surface of the abdomen.

abdominal somite

Zoology; Zoological terms

( ARTHRO: Crustacea) Any single division of the body between the thorax and telson; a pleomere; a pleonite.

abduct

Zoology; Zoological terms

to draw away from position of median plane or axis.

abductin

Zoology; Zoological terms

( MOLL: Bivalvia) Rub- ber-like block of protein of the inner hinge ligament of Pecten

phylum ctenophora

Zoology; Zoological terms

Comb jellies. Free swimming, biradiate, with two tentacles and eight longitudinal rows of ciliary combs.

ph. platyhelminthes

Zoology; Zoological terms

Flatworms. Body dorso-ventrally flattened; digestive cavity (when not secondarily lost) with a single opening, the mouth. The turbellarians are free-living in the sea and freshwater, a few ...

ph. rhynchocoela

Zoology; Zoological terms

Nemerteans. Long dorso-ventrally flattened body with a complex eversible proboscis apparatus. Digestive cavity with mouth and anus: Marine, with a few found in freshwater and terrestria