brachiophore

English

Etymology

brachio- +‎ -phore

Noun

brachiophore (plural brachiophores)

1. The supporting plate for the tentacle-bearing arms on a brachiopod.
   • 1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, →ISBN, page 73:

     The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.

   • 1953, Raymond Cecil Moore, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology - Volume 1, page H-98:

     The brachiophore processes may be negligible in the older stocks but were very well developed in some younger forms like Camerella

   • 1970, J. G. Johnson, Great Basin Lower Devonian Brachiopoda, →ISBN, page 89:

     It is readily distinguished from Schizophoria parafragilis by shape and by its widely diverging brachiophore supporting plates.