单词 | toxifer |
释义 | toxifern. Zoology. A mollusc of the sub-order Toxifera. (Cf. toxoglossate adj.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of suborder Toxifera toxifer1853 1853 J. E. Gray in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 177 The subulate barbed teeth are implanted by a distinct root into the substance of the tube... The structure and organization of the mouth are so unlike that of the other Proboscidifera and Rostrifera, where the teeth are placed on a lingual ribbon and used to rasp the food..that I am inclined to form the Cones into a third sub-order, which may be called Toxifera. 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 193 So far as known, the teeth and proboscis are like those of other Toxifers. 1863 P. P. Carpenter in Proc. Zool. Soc. 23 June 347 Species belonging to different families of Proboscidifers and Toxifers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1853 |
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