Meaning of cothurnopore | Babel Free

Definitions

A proto-lamellate organ of a stylophoran composed of U-shaped plates.

Examples

“Epispires, cothurnopores, and lamellipores in cornutes are respiratory structures not atypical of early echinoderms and are only superficially similar to chordate gill slits.”

“In all cornute species where cothurnopores are well preserved, each cothurnopore consists of two U-plates that meet one another at the tips, thus enclosing a small elliptical area.”

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