meroic
See also: Meroic
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meroic (not comparable)
- (biology) Pertaining to nephridia that are formed by longitudinal or traverse fragmentation of a single original pair of embryonic rudiments in each segment.
- 1998, R Blakemore, “Retrovescus, a new genus of opisthogastric earthworm from Tasmania”, in Invertebrate Systematics:
- Characteristic traits, all apomorphies, are perichaetine setae, tubulo-racemose prostates, avesiculate meroic nephridia and opisthogastry (the development of intestinal gizzards, which in this genus are multiple in the region of segments 20–26).
- 2010, Cs. Csuzdi, “Review of the Paleotropical Neogastrini Earthworms (Oligochaeta, Acanthodrilidae: Benhamiinae) With Description of Two New Genera”, in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 56, number 2:
- Due to the somewhat macerated specimens Michaelsen (1933) was not able to recognize the structure of the excretory system in the type species, however, he found it meroic at W. beauforti.
- 2014, C Fragoso, P Rojas, “New species and records of the earthworm genus Ramiellona (Annelida, Oligochaeta, Acanthodrilidae) from southern Mexico and Guatemala”, in Zootaxa, volume 3753:
- The genus Ramiellona was erected by Michaelsen (1935) to include Ramiellona stadelmanni Michaelsen, a meroic species from Honduras with acanthodrilin male terminalia, tubular prostates, one gizzard and with internal calciferous lamellae.