Meanings
nounlamellipore (plural lamellipores)
plural lamellipores
- biologyA thin, sheet-like extension that forms part of the skeletal walls of some bryozoan colonies.
Epispires, cothumopores, and lamellipores in cornutes are respiratory structures not atypical of early echinoderms and are only superficially similar to chordate gill slits.
1997 October, R[onald] L. Parsley, “The echinoderm classes Stylophora and Homoiostelea: non Calcichordata”, in The Paleontological Society Papers, volume 3, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 225
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