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cocculinellid

cocculinellid noun: any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.

Noun

cocculinellid (plural cocculinellids)

  1. Any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.
    • Papers on cocculinellid limpets and southern Australian Triphoridae were published, and papers on deep-sea pectinodontine, cocculinid, and pseudococculinid limpets are ready for submission.1981, New Zealand Marine Sciences Newsletter, page 76
    • 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, 1983.1985, B. A. Marshall, “Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales”, in New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 12, number 4...

Forms of cocculinellid

pluralcocculinellids

Questions about cocculinellid

What does cocculinellid mean?
Cocculinellid means any gastropod in the family Cocculinellidae.
What part of speech is cocculinellid?
Cocculinellid is a noun.
What is the plural of cocculinellid?
The plural of cocculinellid is cocculinellids.

Words near cocculinellid in the dictionary

  1. coccosteomorph
  2. coccothraustine
  3. coccous
  4. cocculin
  5. cocculine
  6. cocculinellid
  7. cocculinellids
  8. cocculinid
  9. cocculinids
  10. cocculolidine
  11. cocculus indicus

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