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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> 757predator or parasite gaining nourishment from the trophallacticsecretions <strong>of</strong> the host larvae.pseudotagma n. [Gr. pseudos, false; tagma, a division] (AR-THRO: Chelicerata) In Acari, a region <strong>of</strong> a body division,such as gnathosoma, idiosoma, proterosoma and hysterosoma.pseudotaxodont a. [Gr. pseudos, false; taxis, arrangement;odon, tooth] (MOLL: Bivalvia) With numerous irregular shortteeth transverse to the hinge, but are not related to ctenodontor pseudoctenodont forms.pseudotela n.; pl. -ae [Gr. pseudos, false; tela, end](BRACHIO) One <strong>of</strong> a pair <strong>of</strong> external projections <strong>of</strong> the shellnear the pedicle (not beak ridges).pseudotetramerous a. [Gr. pseudos, false; tetra, four;meros, part] Appearing as having 4 joints, where there areactually 5.pseudotrachea n. [Gr. pseudos, false; tracheia, windpipe] 1.A trachea-like structure. 2. (ARTHRO: Crustacea) In terrestrialIsopoda, a respiratory structure developed in the pleopodsfor air-breathing. 3. (ARTHRO: Insecta) In Diptera,small, specialized channels <strong>of</strong> the labellum that open to theexterior <strong>of</strong> the oral lobes and pass liquid food to the foodcanal.pseudotrimerous a. [Gr. pseudos, false; treis, three; meros,part] Appearing as 3 jointed, when actually having 4 jointsor segments.pseudotroch n. [Gr. pseudos, false; trochos, wheel] (ROTIF)An enlarged arc <strong>of</strong> stiff cirri in the supra-oral region <strong>of</strong> thebuccal field.pseudovarium n. [Gr. pseudos, false; L. ovarium, ovary] Anovary producing pseudova. see pseudovum.pseudovelum n. [Gr. pseudos, false; L. velum, veil] (CNID:Scyphozoa) A narrow shelf-like flange with no musculesand nerves projecting inward from the margin <strong>of</strong> the bell.pseudovesicles n. [Gr. pseudos, false; L. vesicula, little bladder)(ANN: Oligochaeta) Structures, serially homologouswith seminal vesicles, on the posterior faces <strong>of</strong> 12/13 or13/14.

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