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Definition of Gorgonocephalus
1. Noun. Basket stars.
Generic synonyms: Echinoderm Genus
Group relationships: Euryalida, Subclass Euryalida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgonocephalus
Literary usage of Gorgonocephalus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the "Fram," 1898-1902 by Per Schei, Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo, Nordal Willie (1907)
"Only gorgonocephalus agassizi has hitherto been recorded from that quarter (DUNCAN
... It very much resembles a gorgonocephalus agassizi, measuring 5.5 mm., ..."
2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"Resembles gorgonocephalus in form, but differs in having no pavement of plates
on the margins and interradial areas ; in the absence of under arm-plates; ..."
3. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Rymer Jones (1841)
"In the gorgonocephalus (Jig. 59), the proportionate size of the rays when compared
with that of the central disc still preponderates very considerably, ..."
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