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pycnophyid (plural pycnophyids)

  1. Any kinorhynch of the family Pycnophyidae.
    • 2015 July 23, “Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha Based on Morphology and Two Molecular Loci”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      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.