Stenostomid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stenostomid is a noun meaning (zoology) Any member of the family Stenostomidae of flatworms.
Meaning
(zoology) Any member of the family Stenostomidae of flatworms.
Example Sentences
The brain lies a little farther forward than in stenostomids but not so far forward as in Chordarium.
AN-DER-LAN (1939), however, thinks that this is not the case of a new genus, but rather of a new species belonging to the stenostomid group, where the same method of feeding is observed.
I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974).
Word Forms
- stenostomids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include microstomid, macrostomid, stomatode, stenothecid, notostylopid, stomatellid.
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