Entomostomata

Translingual

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“cut into”) + [Term?] (“mouth”), coined by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville

Proper noun

Entomostomata

1. (obsolete) A group of siphonobranchiate gastropods, having the lip of the shell notched, the members of which are now included in subclass Caenogastropoda.

Hyponyms

• (gastropods): Buccinidae, Muricidae, Harpidae, Terebridae, Cancellariidae (now in order Neogastropoda); Doliidae (now Tonnidae), Cassididae (now Cassidae) (now in order Littorinimorpha); Cerithiidae, Planaxidae (Caenogastropoda incertae sedis)

References

• “Entomostomata”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.