Aulacopod

Quick meaning: Aulacopod is an adjective meaning (biology) Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin.

Meaning

(biology) Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin.

Example Sentences

It is only in the aulacopod land snails that there is a great diversity of shelled snails, slugs, and a wild variety of intermediates

Webb (J 96l a) thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted.

In an analysis of pallial and foot character evolution in Stylomatophora, Baker (1955) concluded that the ancestors of the Sigmurethra probably had, among other features, an aulacopod foot.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include holopod, anacolpate, phyllopodous, apod, apodal, chiropodous.

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