Definition of Dibranchia

1. Noun. Comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibranchia

Dianthus latifolius
Dianthus plumarius
Dianthus supurbus
Diapensiaceae
Diapensiales
Diapheromera femorata
Diapsida
Diaptomus
Dias
Diaspididae
Diaspora
Diatomophyceae
Diaz
Dibothriocephalus
Dibothriocephalus latus
Dibranchia
Dicamptodon ensatus
Dicamptodontidae
Dicentra canadensis
Dicentra cucullaria
Dicentra spectabilis
Diceros
Diceros bicornis
Diceros simus
Dichelobacter nodosus
Dichondra micrantha

Literary usage of Dibranchia

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

1. Lehrbuch Der Vergleichenden Anatomie Der Wirbellosen Thiere by Arnold Lang, Karl Hescheler (1900)
"Die dibranchia besitzen entweder 8 oder 10 Arme, welche den Mund kranzförmig umstellen und auf ihrer Unterseite mit in einer oder mehreren ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"In the dibranchia they are placed ventrally between the pedal and ... The cavity of each otocyst is continued, in the dibranchia, into a small canal which ..."

3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"dibranchia. CEPHALOPODA with two gills, two kidneys, and two auricles; with shell enveloped by the ... dibranchia with ten arms — two long and eight short. ..."

4. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"The dibranchia. With one exception, viz. the female . ... the dibranchia either have an internal shell lying on the anterior side of the visceral dome, ..."

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