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Definition of Genus spadella
1. Noun. Marine worms resembling the sagittas but with a broader body and only one pair of lateral fins.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Spadella
Literary usage of Genus spadella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1918)
"... type would perhaps give a clearer affinity to the genus Spadella. The conspicuous
pair of tentacles which surmounts the head is absent in modern ..."
2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1891)
"In the genus Spadella there is a thin th Fe°: "o; .- Transverse section layer of
transverse muscle ..."