Radula Sentence Examples

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  • The radula has 160 rows of teeth with twelve teeth in each row.

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  • Radula with very numerous marginal teeth arranged like the rays of a fan.

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  • In the radula there is a single central tooth or none.

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  • The three following families have neither radula nor jaws, and are therefore called Aglossa.

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  • Shell solid, piriform, with thick folded columella; lateral teeth of radula bicuspidate.

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  • Shell elongated, with long siphon; lateral teeth of radula multicuspidate.

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  • Shell irregular; radula absent; foot and siphon short; sedentary animals, living in corals.

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  • Cephalic shield ending posteriorly in a median point; shell internal, largely membranous; no radula or stomachal plates.

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  • Head broad, surrounded by a funnel-shaped velum or hood; no radula; dorsal appendages foliaceous.

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  • No mandibles, and radula uniserial.

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  • The Pulmonata have a straight visceral nerve-loop, usually no operculum even in the embryo, and a multidenticulate radula, the teeth being equi-formal; and they are hermaphrodite.

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  • Radula with elongated and pointed teeth, like those of the Agnatha; a jaw present.

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  • Shell external, smooth, heliciform or flattened; radula with pointed marginal teeth.

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  • No shell; mantle covers the whole surface of the body; radula with squarish teeth.

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  • Shell internal, or absent; mantle restricted to the anterior and middle part of the body; radula with squarish teeth.

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  • The latter were regarded as forming a distinct branch, equivalent in rank to the other three classes together, the latter all possessing the radula which is wanting in Lamellibranchs.

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  • The characteristic organs of Mollusca are the mantle and shell, the foot, the ctenidia and the radula, of which all but the last are external.

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  • This has led to the loss of the radula, and is accompanied by the division of the shell into two valves.

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  • Hubrecht in 1881 of a typical molluscan radula and odontophore in a new genus Proneomenia, allied to Neomenia, showed that the whole group belonged to the Mollusca.

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  • Each transverse row of teeth of the radula contains 17 teeth, one of which is median, while the second and the fifth on each side are enlarged.

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  • The labial commissure gives off a subradular commissure which also bears two ganglia, these being in close relation to a special sense-organ called the subradular organ, an epithelial projection with nerve-endings, lying in front of the radula and probably gustatory in function.

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  • The radula when present comprises several transverse rows of teeth, and each transverse row may have several teeth (polystichous), two teeth (distichous), or one tooth (monostichous).

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  • It is a curious fact that in the original type Neomenia the radula is entirely absent, as it likewise is in several genera of Proneomeniidae.

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  • Short, truncate in front and behind; cloacal orifice transverse; gills present; rather thin cuticle; no radula.

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  • Elongated, cylindrical, rounded at both ends; thick cuticle with acicular spicules; radula polystichous or wanting.

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  • Short and truncated in front; thick cuticle, often without papillae; gills and 7 radula present.

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  • On the floor of the pharynx or buccal mass is a rudimentary radula, which in many species consists of a single large tooth, bearing two small teeth or a row of teeth.

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  • In other species the radula is more of the usual type consisting of several transverse rows of two or three teeth each.

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  • According to Paul Pelseneer the Polyplacophora are the most archaic, the Aplacophora being specialized in (1) the great reduction of the foot, (2) the disappearance of the shell (Cryptoplax among the Polyplacophora showing both reductions in progress), (3) the disappearance of the radula.

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  • This buccal sac is provided with a dorsal mandible and a ventral radula.

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  • They feed by using an organ called the radula.

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  • Slugs and snails don't have jaws, instead they have a radula, they are the only animals to have a radula.

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  • Below you can see the detail of teeth of a limpet radula.

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  • Radula with ver y numerous marginal teeth arranged like the rays of a fan.

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  • A crop-like dilatation of the gut and a recurved intestine, embedded in the compact yellowish-brown liver, the ducts of which open into it, form the rest of the digestive tract and occupy a large bulk of the visceral hump. The buccal region presents a pair of shelly jaws placed laterally upon the lips, and a wide range of variation in the form of the denticles of the lingual ribbon or radula.

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  • Shell external, spiral, generally ornamented with ribs; borders of aperture thin and not reflected; radula with square teeth; genital ducts without accessory organs.

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  • The radula consists of a chitinous band bearing teeth, secreted by a ventral caecum of the pharnyx and moved by an apparatus of cartilage and muscles.

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  • Beneath the anterior parts of the radula where it emerges from the caecum are a pair of cartilages, and attached to these a number of special muscles by which the radula is moved backwards and forwards to act as a rasp. The secretion of the radula at the closed end of the caecum is continuous, so that it is constantly growing forward as fast as its exposed anterior portion is worn away by use, just as a fingernail is pushed forward by constant growth at its posterior end, and is worn away or has to be cut short from time to time at its outer end.

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  • Slugs and snails do n't have jaws, instead they have a radula, they are the only animals to have a radula.

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