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Definition of Prosobranchs
1. prosobranch [n] - See also: prosobranch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosobranchs
Literary usage of Prosobranchs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1908)
"Rabl (1879) concluded that the outer kidneys of Planorbis are probably comparable
with the outer kidneys of freshwater prosobranchs, but not with the ..."
2. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"The great order of prosobranchs comprise also a majority of marine forms.
There are a certain number which live in brackish water near the discharge of ..."
3. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Most prosobranchs are unisexual, while the pulmonates and opisthobranchs are
hermaphroditic. The majority of snails are oviparous, and many of them lay ..."
4. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"Remarkable transformations in the shape of the body take place in some prosobranchs
which become adapted to a parasitic life on or in various Echinoderms ..."
5. Elementary Zoology by Frank Evers Beddard (1898)
"prosobranchs.—Of this group, which are characterized by the fact that the gills
lie in front of the heart, ... The more advanced prosobranchs are termed the ..."
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