Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin.
It is only in the aulacopod land snails that there is a great diversity of shelled snails, slugs, and a wild variety of intermediates
1974, Alan Solem, The Shell Makers: Introducing Mollusks, page 2122 more examples
Webb (J 96l a) thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted.
1999, Fauna of New Zealand - Issue 38, page 21In an analysis of pallial and foot character evolution in Stylomatophora, Baker (1955) concluded that the ancestors of the Sigmurethra probably had, among other features, an aulacopod foot.
2001, G. M. Barker, The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs, →ISBN, page 90
Origin
- Ancient Greekαὖλαξ“furrow”
- Englishaulacopod
From Ancient Greek αὖλαξ (aûlax, “furrow”) + -pod.
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