pycnophyid
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Noun edit
pycnophyid (plural pycnophyids)
- Any kinorhynch of the family Pycnophyidae.
- 2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- This arrangement is less conspicuous in species of Dracoderes (Fig 5C), although the short but wide placids, with cuticular foldings in between are still arranged in a pattern that is much closer to the arrangement in the pycnophyid and neocentrophyid species.