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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 653next to the pallial line.pallial retractor muscles Muscles that withdraw the edge <strong>of</strong>the pallium into the shell.pallial sinus 1. (BRACHIO) see mantle canal. 2. (MOLL: Bivalvia)A notch or recess in the pallial line.palliobranchial fusion (MOLL: Bivalvia) Having the ctenidiaouter tips fused to the mantle margin.palliolum n. [L. dim. pallium, mantle] (ARTHRO: Insecta) InSiphonaptera, the outer (external) wall <strong>of</strong> the aedeagus.palliopedal a. [L. pallium, mantle; pedis, foot] (MOLL) Pertainsto the mantle and foot.pallioperitoneal a. [L. pallium, mantle; Gr. periteinein, tostretch around] (MOLL) Pertaining to a complex that includesheart, renal organs, gonads and ctenidia.pallium n. [L. pallium, mantle] 1. The mantle <strong>of</strong> a bivalve Molluscaor a Brachiopoda. 2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) In certainOrthoptera (Caelifera), a membrane from the free margin<strong>of</strong> the subgenital plate covering the retracted phallus.palm see manuspalmaria, palmars see tertibrachpalmate a. [L. palma, hand] 1. Digitate; parts arising from acommon center; flat and wide with projections like fingers,as certain corals. 2. (PORIF) Megasclere with chela havingsheetlike or winglike elaborations.Palmen's organ (ARTHRO: Insecta) In Ephemeroptera, a cuticularnodule at the junction <strong>of</strong> four tracheae mid-dorsallybehind the eyes <strong>of</strong> the adult and larva; may function as astatocyst.palmula see pulvilluspalp see palpus/palppalpation n. [L. palpus, feeler] (ARTHRO: Insecta) The act <strong>of</strong>touching with labial or maxillary palps; serves as sensoryprobe or tactile signal to another insect.palp foramen (ARTHRO: Crustacea) A small opening in themandibular body.palpifer n. [L. palpus, feeler; ferre, to carry] (ARTHRO: Insecta)

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