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COLUMELLA [3 records]

Record 1 2012-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mosses and Related Plants
DEF

The central sterile structure surrounded by spores along the central axis of most moss or hornwort capsules.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

Axe central de la capsule, autour duquel se développent les spores.

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-04-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

Thickened axis of the spire about which the whorls are developed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Pilier central des coquilles de Gastropodes constitué des parties internes des tours et autour duquel s'enroulent ces tours.

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

Most extinct amphibians probably rested their large heads on the ground and detected vibrations in the substrate by bone conduction through the jaw and other structures to the inner ear. This mechanism was improved by incorporating a reduced, stubby hyomandibula into the line of sound transmission. The bone was then an ear ossicle and is assigned a new name, stapes (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Chez les oiseaux (...) [le carré] se retrouve, dans l'oreille, coincé entre deux (...) dérivés des arcs viscéraux: d'une part et en profondeur, l'hyomandibulaire du poisson devenu étrier (...)

Spanish

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