单词 | pleurotomariid |
释义 | pleurotomariidn.adj. Zoology and Palaeontology. A. n. Any of various primitive, deep-water gastropod molluscs constituting the family Pleurotomariidae, having a conical shell with a slit running up from the outer lip through which exhaled water and waste material passes. ΚΠ 1881 Rep. Smithsonian 1880 359 Living Pleurotomariids. Among the most interesting of the mollusks is the genus Pleurotomaria. 1935 Q. Rev. Biol. 10 81/2 The primitive obliquity of the aperture of the marine Turbinids, Trochids, Pleurotomariids and some fossil freshwater Viviparids. 1970 R. M. Black Elements Palaeontol. vii. 70 Various Palaeozoic families survived; pleurotomariids..for example which persist to the present day. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) viii. 220/2 Internally the gills of modern pleurotomariids are unmodified (aspidobranch). B. adj. Of or relating to the family Pleurotomariidae. ΚΠ 1939 Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 29 21 (title) Certain pleurotomariid gastropods from the Carboniferous of New Mexico and Texas. 1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles vi. 130 Molluscs were more common since gastropods were more numerous and varied than formerly, although chiefly Euomphalid and Pleurotomarid forms. 1988 Nautilus 102 89 (title) A new species of pleurotomariid gastropod from the western Atlantic. 1990 Paleobiology 16 201/2 Gastropod diversity doubled during the Tournasian-Namurian, as pleurotomarid diversity expanded. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1881 |
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