单词 | holaspidean |
释义 | holaspideanadj. Zoology. Pertaining to passerine birds that have a single series of large scutella on the posterior portion of the tarsus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [adjective] > relating to miscellaneous groups of acromyodian1876 holaspidean1885 pseudoscinine1890 taxaspidean1899 1885 J. S. Kingsley Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 485 This peculiarity consists in the holaspidean tarsi, technically making them scutelliplantar, the hind surface of the tarsus being broken up into scutes similar to those covering the front part. 1907 R. Ridgway Birds North & Middle Amer. (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 50) IV. 329 In all Oscines except the Alaudidæ (in which the tarsus is holaspidean) [the tarsus] has the posterior margin contracted into a sharp or narrow ridge or edge. 1959 J. Van Tyne & A. J. Berger Fund. Ornithol. ii. 48 Several types of passerine tarsal scutellation have been described... Holaspidean: With rear surface of tarsus covered by a single series of broad, rectangular scales. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adj.1885 |
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