Entomostomata

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Translingual

Etymology

Ancient Greek (“cut into”) + (“mouth”), coined by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Proper noun

Entomostomata

(obsolete) A group of siphonobranchiate gastropods, having the lip of the shell notched, the members of which are now included in subclass Caenogastropoda.

Hyponyms

(gastropods): Buccinidae, Muricidae, Harpidae, Terebridae, Cancellariidae (now in order Neogastropoda); Doliidae (now Tonnidae), Cassididae (now Cassidae) (now in order Littorinimorpha); Cerithiidae, Planaxidae (Caenogastropoda incertae sedis)

References

“Entomostomata”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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