Meaning of aulacopod | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a pair of parapodial grooves so that the ciliated sole extends above the foot margin.

not-comparable

Examples

“It is only in the aulacopod land snails that there is a great diversity of shelled snails, slugs, and a wild variety of intermediates”

“Webb (J 96l a) thought the aulacopod condition better adapted to burrowing in soil and the holopod condition, with less pronounced grooves, more dry-adapted.”

“In an analysis of pallial and foot character evolution in Stylomatophora, Baker (1955) concluded that the ancestors of the Sigmurethra probably had, among other features, an aulacopod foot.”

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