aplacophoran

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English

Etymology

Aplacophora +‎ -n

Noun

aplacophoran (plural aplacophorans)

  1. Any benthic mollusc of the class Aplacophora.
    • 2015 December 1, “Macrofaunal Patterns in and around du Couedic and Bonney Submarine Canyons, South Australia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      The aplacophoran mollusc Chaetoderma sp. occurred only at 500 m.