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Definition of Gymnophiona
1. Noun. An order of amphibians including caecilians.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Member holonyms: Caeciliadae, Caeciliidae, Family Caeciliadae, Family Caeciliidae
Definition of Gymnophiona
1. n. pl. An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body. See Ophiomorpha.
Medical Definition of Gymnophiona
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnophiona
Literary usage of Gymnophiona
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nasal Organ in Amphibia by George Marsh Higgins (1921)
"... showing that many points supposed to indicate relationships, were based upon
erroneous statements or misconceptions and that the gymnophiona are to be ..."
2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"In gymnophiona it may retain its abdominal opening; it is extremely ... The ovary
in gymnophiona is a long thin band ; in Urodela a cylindrical sac, ..."
3. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"An exoskeleton is present in many gymnophiona in the form of small dermal ...
In the gymnophiona the caudal region is very short, and there is no sacrum ..."
4. A Manual of the anatomy of vertebrated animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1881)
"The rest of the Urodela, and all the Batrachia and gymnophiona, are devoid of
both external gills and gill- clefts, in the adult state. In all the Amphibia, ..."
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