polyplacophoran
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polyplacophoran — n. [Gr. polys, many; plax, tablet; phora, producing] A class of free living mollusks commonly referred to as chitons or coat of mail shells; distinguished by having a shell with 8 dorsal calcareous plates that overlap each other; in some… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
polyplacophoran — poly·pla·coph·o·ran … English syllables
polyplacophoran — adjective or noun see polyplacophora … Useful english dictionary
Halkieria — Taxobox name = Halkieria fossil range = fossil range|533|511|Lower to Middle Cambrian image title = Halkieria evangelista from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet, North Greenland regnum = Animalia phylum = ?Mollusca unranked ordo = Halwaxiida… … Wikipedia
Halwaxiida — taxobox image caption= Halkieria regnum=Animalia fossil range=Early to Middle Cambrian superphylum=Lophotrochozoa phylum = See text Halwaxiida or halwaxiids is a proposed clade loosely uniting scale bearing Cambrian animals, which may lie in the… … Wikipedia
Debate about Cambrian Lophotrochozoans — Since 1990 there has been intense debate among paleontologists about the evolution in the Early Cambrian period of the super phylum Lophotrochozoa, which is thought to include the modern molluscs, annelid worms and brachiopods, as well as their… … Wikipedia
Mollusca — Temporal range: Cambrian–Recent … Wikipedia
Chiton — This article is about the mollusc. For the ancient Greek article of dress, see Chiton (costume). Chiton Temporal range: Devonian–Recent[1][2] … Wikipedia
mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… … Universalium
polyplacophore — 1. adjective polyplacophoran 2. noun polyplacophoran … Wiktionary
