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pogonophore|pəˈgəʊnəʊfɔː(r)|
[a. mod.L. Pogonophora (K. E. Johannson 1937, in Zool. Bidrag från Uppsala XVIII. 253), f. Gk. πώγων beard + -ϕόρος bearing: see -phore.]
A worm-like marine invertebrate belonging to the phylum Pogonophora. So pogoˈnophoran, pogoˈnophorous adjs., of or pertaining to an animal of this kind or the phylum as a whole.
1955Systematic Zool. III. 184/1 The large size of pogonophorous animals is interesting. 1958New Scientist 20 Nov. 1303/2 All pogonophores look like bits of string or trawl twine. 1959L. H. Hyman Invertebrates V. xviii. 210 Pogonophores are exclusively marine and are mostly limited to abyssal depths. 1964New Scientist 24 Dec. 842/3 Pogonophores are to be found in all seas, even in those places where the marine fauna had been previously studied with care. 1973Nature 21 Dec. 452/1 Pogonophoran Phylogeny... The first international symposium on Pogonophora..took place in the University of Copenhagen on November 1–3. Ibid. 452/3 Gupta finally expressed a doubt that pogonophores are coelomate animals at all. 1976Ibid. 18 Mar. 218/2 The author devotes most space to the few species of animals, such as the ostracod Gigantocypris and the pogonophoran worm Siboglinum, that have been used by physiologists. |