stenostomid

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stenostomid (plural stenostomids)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the family Stenostomidae of flatworms.
    • 1960, Siniša Stanković, The Balkan Lake Ohrid and Its Living World, page 174:
      AN-DER-LAN (1939), however, thinks that this is not the case of a new genus, but rather of a new species belonging to the stenostomid group, where the same method of feeding is observed.
    • 1982, Sybil P. Parker, Synopsis and classification of living organisms, volume 1, page 721:
      The brain lies a little farther forward than in stenostomids but not so far forward as in Chordarium.
    • 1982, Graham Bell, The Masterpiece of Nature: The Evolution and Genetics of Sexuality‎[1]:
      I have found no definite reports of apomictic turbellarians, although the stenostomid Rhynchoscolex is said neither to reproduce by fission (but see Pennak, 1978) nor to possess a male system (Sterrer and Rieger, 1974).
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