Meanings
- A direct nerve connection between ganglia that are located on opposite sides of the body of a mollusk.
In Littorina, the mantle nerves arise from the pleural ganglia and the left forms a dialyneury with a nerve from the supraoesophageal ganglion.
2019, Winston Frank Ponder, David R. Lindberg, Juliet Mary Ponder, Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 12 more examples
Dialyneury exists only in the Streptoneura and consists in the establishment of a direct nerve connection between the constituent ganglia of the visceral centre, morphologically belonging to opposite sides of the body;
1900, John W. Taylor, William Denison Roebuck, Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, page 222Such a direct link betwen a parietal and pleural ganglion is known as a sygoneury, and it clearly confers the same functional advantage as a dialyneury but in a more effective manner.
1994, Vera Fretter, Alastair Graham, British Prosobranch Molluscs, page 276
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