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EPISTOME [3 records]

Record 1 2012-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
DEF

Any of several structures or regions situated above or covering the mouth of various invertebrates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sponges, Hydrozoans and Jellyfish
DEF

A class or other division of Bryozoa comprising chiefly marine bryozoans with a circular lophophore about the mouth and including most recent and extinct forms

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éponges, hydres et méduses
DEF

Bryozoaire ectoprocte à tentacules du lophophore libres à la base, à bouche nue sans épistome, marin ou dulcicole

Spanish

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Record 3 1977-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
CONT

The "clypeus" is the intermediate of the three unpaired sclerites between the epicranial suture and the mouth [of an insect]. To this part one condyle of the mandible articulates.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
CONT

[Chez un insecte, le clypéus, constituant de la région faciale], présente de chaque côté, un condyle crânial qui correspond à l’articulation antérieure des mandibules.

Spanish

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