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(biology) Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin..
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.
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Aulacopod means (biology) Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin..
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It is only in the aulacopod land snails that there is a great diversity of shelled snails, slugs, and a wild variety of intermediates
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