zygobranchous

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia; zygobranchiate.

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Meanings

adjectivezygobranchous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Zygobranchia; zygobranchiate.

    The zygobranchous genera which have been examined alive, namely, Haliotis, Diodora, Emarginula and Puncturella, are all specialized in one way or another, […]

    1947, C. M. Yonge, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, volume 232, number 591, →JSTOR, page 447
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    However, it does now seem highly probable that extracellular and not intracellular digestion is primitive in the Mollusca (being present in the chitons and probably in zygobranchous Gastropoda […]

    1958, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, page 210
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