Docoglossa


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Doc`o`glos´sa


n. pl.1.(Zool.) An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Orden Docoglossa Troschel, 1866 Familia Acmaeidae Carpenter, 1857 Collisella atrata (Carpenter, 1857) Orden Neotaenioglossa Haller, 1882 Familia Cerithiidae de Ferrusac, 1819 Cerithium maculosum Kiener, 1841 Familia Strombidae Rafinesque, 1815 Strombus galeatus Swainson, 1823 Familia Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 Neorapana tuberculata (Sowerby, 1835) Hexaplex princeps (Bropderip, 1822) Hexaplex brasssica (Lamarck, 1822) Familia Conidae Rafinesque, 1815 Conus princeps Linnaeus, 1758 Conus nux Broderip, 1833
In the ancestral-like forms, such as the Docoglossa and the Vetigastropoda, the mesentoblast is formed last, i.e., at the 63-cell stage.