zygobranchous
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]zygobranchous (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia; zygobranchiate.
- 1947, C. M. Yonge, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, volume 232, number 591, →JSTOR, page 447:
- The zygobranchous genera which have been examined alive, namely, Haliotis, Diodora, Emarginula and Puncturella, are all specialized in one way or another, […]
- 1958, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, page 210:
- However, it does now seem highly probable that extracellular and not intracellular digestion is primitive in the Mollusca (being present in the chitons and probably in zygobranchous Gastropoda […]