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Definition of Ophiuroids
1. ophiuroid [n] - See also: ophiuroid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ophiuroids
Literary usage of Ophiuroids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1900)
"In development the water-pore of recent ophiuroids originally opens on the dorsal
... The Alimentary System remains very simple in all the ophiuroids, ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1892)
"^»e following papers were read :— >• Contribution to the Classification of
ophiuroids, with Descriptions of some new and little-known Forms. ..."
3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1892)
"644 & 645)- (5) Proa »ter, ancestor of Asteroids and ophiuroids. These ancestral
forms are directly descended one from another in the above order, ..."
4. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"(2) The blastopore usually becomes the permanent anus but it closes at the end
of larval life (there being no anus in the adult) in ophiuroids and some ..."
5. A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1879)
"As regards their distribution in time, the ophiuroids make their first appearance
in the Lower Silurian, and they are represented by various ancient types ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"In Ophiothrix each cluster of genital " glands " is replaced by a single organ.
The development of the ophiuroids is described in the case of two species, ..."
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