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Definition of Scaphopoda

1. Noun. Small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells.

Definition of Scaphopoda

1. n. pl. A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scaphopoda

Literary usage of Scaphopoda

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"More recent investigations, however, have shown that the scaphopoda are more nearly akin to the Gastropoda than to the Lamellibranchia. ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"The scaphopoda form a small but very distinct class, whose organisation is decidedly of a low type. The body is usually slightly curved, the concave side ..."

3. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"The shells of the scaphopoda are immediately distinguishable from those of nil other ... Sars divides the scaphopoda into two orders: I think that his ..."

4. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1884)
"The shells of the scaphopoda are immediately distinguishable from those of all other ... Sars divides the scaphopoda into two orders : I think that his ..."

5. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"... modification has CLASS D, scaphopoda f The scaphopoda are characterized by an elongate, bilaterally symmetrical body which thus looks worm-like. ..."

6. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Henry Meyners Bernard, Matilda Bernard, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"C. scaphopoda (Fig. 165, p. 193). ... If, as maintained by all authorities, there are no reno-pericardial apertures, the scaphopoda would be the only group ..."

7. The Standard Natural History by John Sterling Kingsley, Frederich Anton Heller von Hellwald, Elliott Coues (1884)
"All authors admit that the scaphopoda are the lowest, while the position of ... SUB-CLASS I. — scaphopoda. The tooth shells, as they are commonly called, ..."

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