endoproct
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Noun edit
endoproct (plural endoprocts)
- Synonym of entoproct
- 1913, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries - Volume 31, Issue 1, page 103:
- Nickerson (1898) added a single species of endoproct (Loxosoma davenporti) to our local fauna, this being first described from specimens taken by him at Cotuit Harbor.
- 1987, Aquatic invertebrates, page 49:
- The three families of endoproct (Pedicellinidae, Urnatellidae and Loxosomatidae) can be distinguished by the form of the zooids and the growth habit.
- 1993, George Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology: Zoobenthos, page 74:
- Leidy (1870) noted that he found the hydroid when searching in the Schuylkill River at Fairmount, Philadelphia, for Urnatella and seems to suggest that Cordylophora was living where experience had shown the endoproct in the past had been likely to occur.