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monotiopleurid

monotiopleurid noun: a bivalve of the family Monotiopleuridae.

Noun

monotiopleurid (plural monotiopleurids)

  1. A bivalve of the family Monotiopleuridae.
    • On the other hand, Schallreuter (pers. commun., 1985) has suggested that Karinutatia Schallreuter, 1978, a monotiopleurid, could be ancestral to Neckajatia.2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1058
    • According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids...1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188

Forms of monotiopleurid

pluralmonotiopleurids

Questions about monotiopleurid

What does monotiopleurid mean?
Monotiopleurid means a bivalve of the family Monotiopleuridae.
What part of speech is monotiopleurid?
Monotiopleurid is a noun.
What is the plural of monotiopleurid?
The plural of monotiopleurid is monotiopleurids.

Words near monotiopleurid in the dictionary

  1. monotiling
  2. monotilings
  3. monotimbral
  4. monotint
  5. monotints
  6. monotiopleurid
  7. monotiopleurids
  8. monotocardian
  9. monotocardians
  10. monotocous
  11. monotokous

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