Meaning of "turbellarian" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TURBELLARIAN

From New Latin Turbellāria, from Latin turbellae (pl) bustle, from turba brawl, referring to the swirling motion created in the water.

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PRONUNCIATION OF TURBELLARIAN

turbellarian  [ˌtɜːbɪˈlɛərɪən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TURBELLARIAN

Turbellarian can act as a noun and an adjective.

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WHAT DOES TURBELLARIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Turbellaria

The Turbellaria are one of the traditional sub-divisions of the phylum Platyhelminthes, and include all the sub-groups that are not exclusively parasitic. There are about 4,500 species, which range from 1 mm to large freshwater forms more than 500 mm long or terrestrial species like Bipalium kewense which can reach 600 mm in length. All the larger forms are flat with ribbon-like or leaf-like shapes, since their lack of respiratory and circulatory systems means that they have to rely on diffusion for internal transport of metabolites. However, many of the smaller forms are round in cross section. Most are predators, and all live in water or in moist terrestrial environments. Most forms reproduce sexually and with few exceptions all are simultaneous hermaphrodites. The Acoelomorpha and the genus Xenoturbella were formerly included in the Turbellaria, but are no longer regarded as Platyhelminthes. All the exclusively parasitic Platyhelminthes form a monophyletic group Neodermata, and it is agreed that these are descended from one small sub-group within the free-living Platyhelminthes.

Definition of turbellarian in the English dictionary

The definition of turbellarian in the dictionary is any typically aquatic free-living flatworm of the class Turbellaria, having a ciliated epidermis and a simple life cycle: includes the planarians. Other definition of turbellarian is of, relating to, or belonging to the class Turbellaria.

TRANSLATION OF TURBELLARIAN

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• Translator English - Russian: турбеллярии
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• Translator English - Javanese: Turbine
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• Translator English - Ukrainian: турбеллярии
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TURBELLARIAN»

Discover the use of turbellarian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to turbellarian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

AQUIRE: Aquatic Information Retrieval Toxicity Data Base : ...

... 941 Adenorhynchus sp Turbellarian PL TURB 134 938 Archiloa cf wilsoni Turbellarian PL TURB 209 942 Archimonotresis sp Turbellarian PL TURB 134 1159 Catenula sp Turbel larian, Flatworm PL TURB 10 937 Convoluta sp Turbellarian ...

Rosemarie C. Russo, Anne Pilli, Environmental Research Laboratory (Duluth, Minn.), 1985

Fish Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment

turbellarian infections on other marine species have also been suspected to be caused by this organism. The tang turbellarian induces a hypermelanization reaction, resulting in dark foci on the skin, which are best seen on light-colored fish; ...

Edward J. Noga, 2011

The Lower Metazoa

No one has stressed more emphatically than Bock (1927) the importance of such fusions for our understanding of turbellarian structure. The effect of function seems to be indisputable in these trends. The adaptive responses are restricted,  ...

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Marine Parasitology

Karling TG (1981) Typhlorhynchus nanus Laidlaw, a kalyptorhynch turbellarian without proboscis (Platyhelminthes). Annales Zoologici Fennici 18, 69–177. Karling TG, Nilsson AM (1974) Further studies on the genus Hypoblepharina Böhmig ...

Klaus Rohde, 2005

Meiobenthology: The Microscopic Motile Fauna of Aquatic ...

5.3.1. Major. Turbellarian. Groups. Acoela: This order, the basis for platyhelminths (Litvaitis et al. 1994) or even bilaterian metazoans (Katayama et al . 1993; Jondelius et al. 2002), contains about 250 species that are small and mostly roundish.

Olav Giere, 2008

Evolution

Common male-female gonopore FIGURE ( | Median sagittal sections (leftside) and dorsal views (right side) of genera from two different turbellarian orders. (a) An acoelan, Convoluta, showing the syncytial mass of digestive cells. (Adapted ...

Monroe W. Strickberger, 2005

An Introduction to Zoology

Figure 8.8 Protonephridial network Nephridiopores Protonephridia To nephridiopore (a) (b) Ciliated canal Nucleus Nucleus Cilia Tubule Flame cell Tube cell (c) The Generalized Excretory System of a Turbellarian. (a) The network of ...

Joseph Springer, Dennis Holley, 2012

Intertidal Invertebrates of California

1961b. The orientation of centrioles in dividing cells and its significance. Biol. Bull . 121: 368 (abstract). 1970. Identical linear order of chromosomes in both gametes of the acoel turbellarian Polychoerus carmelensis: A preliminary note. Proc.

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Molecular Biochemistry and Physiology of Helminth ...

Neuropeptide F: Primary structure from the turbellarian, Artioposthia triangulata. Comparative Biochemistry & Physiology 101C, 269-74. DAVIS, R. E. & STRETTON, A. o. w. (1989). Signaling properties of Asc aris motorneurons: Graded active ...

D. W. Halton, 1996

Captive Seawater Fishes: Science and Technology

The life cycle has the potential to proceed uninterrupted, resulting in increasingly heavier infestations with successive generations. Only worms placed provisionally in the genus Paravortex— in particular the "tang turbellarian" ( Paravortex sp.) ...

Stephen Spotte, 1992

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TURBELLARIAN»

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Pagán's planarians: the extraordinary world of flatworms

One of these categories includes the Turbellarians—flatworms that are free-living and non-parasitic. Turbellarians are then arbitrarily distinguished based on ... «OUPblog, Apr 14»

First, Second Mouth ...?

Its very name suggests that it was long thought to be a Turbellarian, a grouping covering all the mostly non-parasitic flatworms, distinct from the exclusively ... «Science 2.0, Apr 13»

Flatworm Sexuality

The Turbellarian flatworms are cute, minute slug-like metazoans that are so primitive, they haven't got a body space (or coelom) like the rest of the animal nation. «earthtimes.org, Oct 11»

Excerpt: Richard Dawkins's New Book on Evolution

My favorites, however, are the free-living turbellarian worms, of which there are more than 4,000 species: that's about as numerous as all the mammal species ... «Newsweek, Sep 09»