Definition of Branchiobdella

1. Noun. Type genus of the Branchiobdellidae: a small worm that lives on the gills or surface of a crayfish attached by a sucker.

Exact synonyms: Genus Branchiobdella
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Branchiobdellidae, Family Branchiobdellidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchiobdella

Brailsford
Brailsford-Morquio disease
Brain's reflex
Brajesh
Bram Stoker
Brama
Brama raii
Bramah press
Bramah presses
Bramante
Bramidae
Bramley
Bramley's Seedling
Branchiobdella (current term)
Branchiobdellidae
Branchiostegidae
Branchiostomidae
Brancusi
Brandane
Branden
Brandenburg
Brandi
Brandoesque
Brandon
Brandt
Brandt-Andrews manoeuvre
Brandt syndrome
Brandy

Literary usage of Branchiobdella

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Untersuchungen über mikroskopische Schäume und das Protoplasma: Versuche und by Otto Bütschli (1892)
"... am Darm von Branchiobdella astaci. An feinsten Querschnitten durch in ... der Branchiobdella gut beobachten, nur sind die Maschen hier ..."

2. Archiv für Anatomie, Physiologie und wissenschaftliche Medicin (1835)
"Sollen, wie R. Wagner annimmt, diese Kugeln beim Blutegel dem Samen angehören und die Schläuche in den Ovarien Keime enthalten, so würde bei Branchiobdella ..."

3. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1880)
"In Branchiobdella there is placed in the central axis of these cells a column of nucleated protoplasm from which the cells themselves are budded off. ..."

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