Meanings
plural testudinoids
- Any turtle of the superfamily Testudinoidea.
The terrestrial mode of food uptake differs dramatically among and within the three testudinoid subgroups (see Bels, Davenport & Delheusy, 1997 ; Bels et al., 2008 ; Summers et al., 1998 ; Wochesländer, Hilgers & Weisgram, 1999 ; Natchev et al., 2009, present study).
2015, Nikolay Natchev et al., “Feeding behaviour in a ‘basal’ tortoise provides insights on the transitional feeding mode at the dawn of modern land turtle evolution”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI
Origin
- Latintestūdō
- Latintestūdin-
- Englishtestudinoid
Clipping of taxonomic name Testudinoidea. From Latin testūdin- + -oid, from oblique stem of Latin testūdō, from testa.
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