incudate
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Adjective edit
incudate (not comparable)
- (zoology, anatomy) Of, pertaining to or having an incus (bone of the middle ear).
- (zoology, of mastaxes or trophi of rotifers) That functions by prehension; used as a classification.
- incudate trophi
- 1889, Charles Thomas Hudson, Philip Henry Gosse, The Rotifera: Or, Wheel-animalcules, Volume 1, page 120:
- The incudate trophi of Asplanchna are massive forceps quite free from an inclosing mastax, and capable in consequence of even plunging down into the oesophagus; but the forcipate trophi of Sacculus are feeble hooks and blades, inclosed in a grape-shaped mastax, and admitting of only a slight protrusion from the mouth.
- 1967, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology, Volume II: Introduction to Lake Biology and the Limnoplankton, page 531:
- FIGURE 140. […] A-E with a malleate mastax in the Brachionidae and a malleo-ramate in the Flosculariaceae, mainly feed by sedimenting; F and G with virgate or incudate mastax, respectively, are more selective and raptorial.
- 1979, Richard S. Stemberger, A Guide to Rotifers of the Laurentian Great Lakes, Volume 1, US Environmental Protection Agency, page 10:
- Forcipate and incudate trophi function in grasping.
- 2005, Diego Fontaneto, Giulio Melone, “Do rotifer jaws grow after hatching?”, in Alois Herzig, Ramesh D. Gulati, Christian D. Jersabek, Linda May, editors, Rotifera X: Rotifer Research: Trends, New Tools and Recent Advances, Springer, page 215:
- Asplanchna priodonta (Asplanchnidae) is a planktonic predator with incudate trophi, showing a wide trophic spectrum, feeding on rotifers, protists, and various unicellular algae (Jose de Paggi, 2002).
- 2018, Fstik Baran Mandal, Biology of Non-Chordates, 2nd edition, PHI Learning, page 198:
- In Asplanchnidae, rami are large and hooked and constitute incudate mastax, but reduced rami may be present.
Synonyms edit
- (of or pertaining to an incus): incudal
