rhabdopleura Zool.
(ræbdəʊˈplʊərə)
[mod.L., f. rhabdo- + Gr. πλευρά rib, side.]
A member of the genus of protochordates so called, belonging to the class Pterobranchia and having two tentacle-bearing arms.
| [1869 G. J. Allman in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. IX. 58 The remarkable polyzoon for which the genus Rhabdopleura has been constituted is eminently distinguished by the presence within its cœnœcium of a rigid chitinous rod.] 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 435/1 The dwelling of Rhabdopleura is a branched system of annulated tubes of a delicate membranous consistency, each tube corresponding to a single polypide. 1955 [see cephalodiscus]. |