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nounproxistele (plural proxisteles)
plural proxisteles
- The proximal portion of the tail-like appendage on a homoiostele.
The proxistele is not fundamentally tetramerous and there is little evidence of rotation.
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 235
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