prosobranchiate

1. not comparablebiologySynonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).

   a prosobranchiate gastropod

   Synonyms: prosobranch

plural prosobranchiates

1. uncommonbiologySynonym of prosobranch (“a gastropod with gills anterior to the heart”).

   The number of axons in the static nerve of prosobranchiates is usually greater than the number of receptor cells.

   1982, Yakov A[bramovich] Vinnikov, translated by Nicholas Bobrov, “Receptor Cells of the Gravity Organ of Invertebrates”, in Evolution of Receptor Cells: Cytological, Membranous and Molecular Levels (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics; 34), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Mechanoreceptor Cells), page 93

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   An external shell, usually sufficiently large to contain the entire animal, is common to all the prosobranchiates.

   1880, George W[ashington] Tryon, Jr., “Prosobranchiata”, in Manual of Conchology; Structural and Systematic. […], volume II (Muricinæ, Purpurinæ), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [T]he Author, Academy of Natural Sciences, […], →OCLC, “Anatomy” section, “External Features” subsection, page 6

   Pulmonate freshwater snails are found in every type of fresh water, as one might expect, and equally predictably the prosobranchiates are found only in streams and rivers.

   1974, Philip Street, “Molluscs”, in Animal Reproduction, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles, →ISBN, page 151

   Synonyms: prosobranch