polyplacophore


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Related to polyplacophore: class Polyplacophora, Chitons
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Noun 1. polyplacophore - primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
mollusc, mollusk, shellfish - invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
genus Chiton - a genus of Polyplacophora
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Relation entre les lamelles annelees et le reticulum endoplasmique granulaire dans les ovocytes de Trachydermon cinereus Thiele (Mollusque, Polyplacophore).
Ultraestructura del Ovocito Maduro y en Reabsorcion de Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847 (= S. calcifer) (Bivalvia: Spondylidae)/Ultrastructure of the Mature and in Resorption Oocytes of Spondylus limbatus G. B. Sowerby II, 1847 (= S. calcifer) (Bivalvia: Spondylidae)
In India, till today, 5070 species of mollusca have been recorded of which 3370 species are from marine habitats [49].Molluscs frommarine habitat of India, belonging to 220 families and 591 genera, of which 1900 are gastropods, 1100 are bivalves, 210 are cephalopods, 41 are polyplacophores and 20 are scaphopods [2, 51].
Biodiversity of marine gastropods along the Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, west coast of India
Molluscs from marine habitat of India, belonging to 220 families and 591 genera, of which 1900 are gastropods, 1100 are bivalves, 210 are cephalopods, 41 are polyplacophores and 20 are scaphopods [55].
Species diversity and distribution of marine bivalves from coastal transitional ecosystem of Uran, Navi Mumbai, India