siphonapteran
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Siphonaptera + -an
Adjective[edit]
siphonapteran (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the order Siphonaptera of fleas.
Noun[edit]
siphonapteran (plural siphonapterans)
- Any species of the order Siphonaptera, a flea.
- 1987, Barrie Gillean Molyneux Jamieson, The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Insect Spermatozoa, page 206:
- Absence of peripheral singlets, though with varying numbers of central singlets, is seen not only in mecopterans and siphonapterans but also in mycetophilid dipterans, and trichopterans.
- 1998, Drion G. Boucias, Jacquelyn C. Pendland, Principles of Insect Pathology, page 396:
- Members of the genus Blastocrithidia are common pathogens of dipterans, hemipterans, and siphonapterans.
- 2006, Robert Wynn Jones, Applied Palaeontology, page 174:
- The last remaining group, the siphonapterans or fleas, appeared in the Cenozoic, coincident with the radiation of the mammals that they parasitise.