单词 | entoprocta |
释义 | Entoproctan. Zoology. With plural agreement: a small phylum of minute, sedentary marine invertebrates borne on a stalk and having a crown of solid tentacles; (also) animals of this phylum (collectively or individually).The Entoprocta were originally regarded as an order or division of the Polyzoa ( Bryozoa), characterized by having the anus opening within the crown of tentacles (cf. Ectoprocta n.). In view of their lack of a coelom and other differences they were later raised to phylum level, but some researchers now believe that the Entoprocta and Bryozoa should be reunited. ΚΠ 1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 618 Barrois thinks..it is much more natural to consider the Ectoprocta as organisms throughout comparable to Entoprocta, but in which the anus curves within the tentacular crown. 1937 W. C. Allee & K. P. Schmidt Hesse's Ecol. Animal Geogr. iv. 36 Bryozoa are well represented in a single family of Entoprocta, otherwise very rare. 1962 D. J. Merrell Evol. & Genetics xiii. 135 Among the animals with a pseudocoel..are six groups quite clearly similar and two phyla, the Acanthocephala and the Entoprocta, rather different from the others. 2001 D. G. Smith Pennak's Freshwater Invertebr. U.S. (ed. 4) xi. 245 The Entoprocta are small colonial or solitary sessile invertebrates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878 |
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