cocculinellid

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noun

Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.

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Meanings

nouncocculinellid (plural cocculinellids)

plural cocculinellids

  1. biologyAny gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.

    Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.

    1987, Fauna of Australia, volume 5, page 663
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    Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.

    1981, New Zealand Marine Sciences Newsletter, page 76

    In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.

    1985, B. A. Marshall, “Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales”, in New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 12, number 4, page 541
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