Cocculinellid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cocculinellid is a noun meaning (zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.
Meaning
(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.
Example Sentences
Cocculinellids have a narrowly elliptical aperture and subcentral apex.
Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.
In the absence of the highly diagnostic cocculinellid radula, Marshall (1983) referred C. coercita to Cocculinella because of the close similarity of the shell to those of C. minutissima and the New Zealand Recent species C. osteophila Marshall, 1983.
Word Forms
- cocculinellids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cocculinid, pseudococculinid, colloniid, cucullaeid, columbellid, cucullanid.
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