单词 | neopilina |
释义 | Neopilinan. Zoology. A genus of primitive deep-sea univalve molluscs belonging to the class Monoplacophora; (also) a mollusc of this genus.Monoplacophorans were known only from fossils until living specimens of Neopilina were discovered in 1952. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > class Monoplacophora Monoplacophora1957 Neopilina1957 1957 H. Lemche in Nature 23 Feb. 416/1 It would seem probable..that one of the main food-sources of Neopilina is radiolarians. 1959 Listener 12 Feb. 300/2 The recent discovery of Neopilina..is scientifically quite as important as that of the coelacanth. 1968 A. S. Romer Procession of Life v. 101 Little Neopilina has aroused little public interest, but scientifically it is far more important than Latimeria... Neopilina sheds much light on the origin of a whole animal phylum. 1973 P. Tasch Paleobiol. Invertebr. viii. 325/2 Neopilina is segmented (that is, has internal metamerism) in a way similar to that of annelid worms and arthropods. 1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 206 Repetition and segmentation, shown by the sequence of lobes as well as the feeding appendages, are not restricted to arthropods—think of annelids, vertebrates, and even the molluscan ‘living fossil,’ Neopilina. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. vii. 226 Many molluscs live only in sediment in deep ocean and other such remote places and so remain to be discovered—the first living monoplacophoran (Neopilina) was reported only in 1952. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1957 |
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