eulepidine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

eu- +‎ lepidine

Adjective[edit]

eulepidine

  1. (zoology) Having an embryonic apparatus in which the protoconch is completely enveloped by the deuteroconch, both chambers adhering only at one point of contact.
    • 1937, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 11, page 104:
      If it should appear, as Yabe believes (1929), that L. ephippioides is also of the eulepidine type, then there is no specific difference between the two last mentioned species […]
    • 1953, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, page 36:
      The embryonic chambers are eulepidine.
    • 2015, Vladimir Pokorný, John W. Neale, Principles of Zoological Micropalaeontology, page 438:
      The trybliolepidine type has developed independently from the eulepidine.
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