单词 | lophophorate |
释义 | lophophoraten.adj. Zoology. A. n. An invertebrate organism possessing a lophophore; spec. a phoronid, brachiopod, bryozoan, or (in some classifications) entoproct. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > member of > oral disk > animal possessing lophophorate1959 1959 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates V. xix. 229 Three groups of coelomates—Phoronida, Ectoprocta, and Brachiopoda..have in common the possession of a lophophore. A relationship..was first surmised by Caldwell (1882), but it remained for Hatschek (1888) to express this..by making them classes of a phylum Tentaculata... The name Lophophorata would have been far more appropriate, and here the three groups in question will be referred to as the lophophorate phyla, or lophophorates. 1972 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 2) 672/1 The preponderance of evidence points to the lophophorates as deuterostomes. 1979 Nature 8 Nov. 135/2 H. and G. Termier..envisaged the evolution of coelomates as involving an early separation of echinoderms from lophophorates and chordates. B. adj. Designating a lophophorate; of or pertaining to lophophorates. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [adjective] > of or relating to lophophorate lophophorate1959 1959 [see sense A.]. 1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms xiv. 173 There is some evidence that the lophophorate body is subdivided into three regions. 1983 E. C. Minkoff Evolutionary Biol. xxvi. 465/2 All lophophorate phyla have a simple digestive tract, complete with mouth and anus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.1959 |
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