单词 | elasipod |
释义 | elasipodn.adj. Zoology. A member of the order Elasipoda of holothurians, found mainly in deep water and characterized by shield-shaped buccal tentacles and the absence of respiratory trees. Frequently attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Holothurioidea > member of order Elasipoda elasipod1955 1892 Zool. Rec. 28 27 (caption) Elasipod branch. 1893 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 485 Of the six Elasipod Psychropotinæ, Benthodytes incerta, [etc.]..are new. 1955 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates IV. vii. 236 The elasipods often live in aggregations of the same or of mixed species and occur in the greatest abundance on bottoms of clay or ooze. 1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms vi. 77 A few holothuroids are pelagic, e.g. the elasipod Pelagothuria. 1976 Nature 2 Sept. 51/1 Elasipod holothurians are deposit feeders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.1892 |
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