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Definition of Dibranchia
1. Noun. Comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish).
Group relationships: Cephalopoda, Class Cephalopoda
Member holonyms: Octopoda, Order Octopoda, Decapoda, Order Decapoda, Belemnoidea, Order Belemnoidea
Generic synonyms: Class
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dibranchia
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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