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Definition of Cydippida
1. Noun. Ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Tentaculata, Tentaculata
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cydippida
Literary usage of Cydippida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Cydippida 6, No tentacles in adult animal; oral lobes present 2. ... Cydippida.
Body spherical or cylindrical or compressed in the plane transverse to the ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... derived from the Cydippida, that has abandoned a pelagic life and taken up a
littoral habit with a corresponding change in body form and consistency, ..."
3. Ctenophores of the Atlantic Coast of North America by Alfred Goldsborough Mayer (1912)
"Cydippida; with an egg-shaped body with but little lateral compression, the
tentacular diameter being only slightly wider than the sagittal. ..."
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