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Scaphopoda
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Sca`phop´o`da
n. pl.1.(Zool.) A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
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Noun1.Scaphopoda - small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shellsScaphopoda - small class of bilaterally symmetrical marine forms comprising the tooth shells
class Scaphopoda
Mollusca, phylum Mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons
scaphopod - burrowing marine mollusk
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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The scaphopods (or "tusk shells") burrow into sea-floor sediment using their muscular "foot" and live head-down.
Head down in the Paleozoic sea; this may be how one clam-like mollusc ... by Rudkin, Dave / ROM Magazine
 
 
 
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