aquapharyngeal
English
editEtymology
editaqua- + pharyngeal. From French aquo-pharyngien, coined by French marine biologist Edgard Hérouard in 1889 based on its constituent parts.[1][2]
Adjective
editaquapharyngeal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the bulb-like anterior part of a sea cucumber, containing the pharynx and water vascular system.
- 2003 September 2, Margaret Barnes, R N Gibson, R. N. Gibson, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review: Volume 38: An Annual Review:[1], Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 260:
- Tentacles are inserted rhythmically into the mouth as a result of the co-ordinated actions of the aquapharyngeal complex which is essentially similar in structure in all holothurians (Fig. 1).
Usage notes
editMost commonly precedes bulb or complex.
References
edit- ^ Edgard Hérouard (1889) “Recherches sur les holothuries des côtes de France”, in Archives Zoologie Expérimentale Génerale 2 (in French), volume 7, page 583: “La complexité de cette région, que Carl Vogt et Yung appellent le bulbe céphalique et que nous avons désignée sous le nom de bulbe aquo-pharyngien, afin d’indiquer quelles sont les parties qui le composent ― The complexity of this region, which Carl Vogt and Yung call the cephalic bulb and which we have designated as the aquopharyngeal bulb, in order to indicate the parts that compose it”
- ^ John Hiram Gerould (1896) “The Anatomy and Histology of Caudina arenata Gould”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, volume 29, number 3, page 155:
- The term aquapharyngeal bulb has been applied by Hérouard (’89) to the bulb-like collection of organs suspended within the anterior part of the body-cavity, including the pharynx, the central portion of the water-vascular system and the lacunar vessels accompanying the central portions of the radial canals.