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scalidophoran

scalidophoran noun: any organism of the clade Scalidophora.

scalidophoran: any organism of the clade Scalidophora
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Noun

scalidophoran (plural scalidophorans)

  1. Any organism of the clade Scalidophora.
    • Usually kinorhynchs are accommodated within the group Scalidophora [6 ], [10 ], together with Priapulida and Loricifera, and even though scalidophoran monophyly has been questioned in regard to the loriciferans [11 ], [12 ], we can at least consider Kinorhyncha and Priapulida as closely related and...2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of scalidophoran

pluralscalidophorans

Origin of scalidophoran

Scalidophora + -an

Questions about scalidophoran

What does scalidophoran mean?
Scalidophoran means any organism of the clade Scalidophora.
What part of speech is scalidophoran?
Scalidophoran is a noun.
What is the plural of scalidophoran?
The plural of scalidophoran is scalidophorans.

Words near scalidophoran in the dictionary

  1. Scalici
  2. scalicide
  3. scalicides
  4. Scalicis
  5. scalid
  6. scalidophoran
  7. scalidophorans
  8. scalids
  9. scalie
  10. scalier
  11. scalies

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