monotiopleurid

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noun

A bivalve of the family Monotiopleuridae.

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nounmonotiopleurid (plural monotiopleurids)

plural monotiopleurids

  1. A bivalve of the family Monotiopleuridae.

    The other obvious option would be to look toward the monotiopleurids for an ancestor.

    2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1060
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    On the other hand, Schallreuter (pers. commun., 1985) has suggested that Karinutatia Schallreuter, 1978, a monotiopleurid, could be ancestral to Neckajatia.

    2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1058

    According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.

    1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188
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