Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Polycladida.
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- noun Any member of the Polycladida, a highly
diverse clade of free-livingmarine turbellarian flatworms .
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Examples
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Michiels, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, offers the striking example of hermaphroditic polyclad flatworms called Pseudobiceros bedfordi.
Random Animal News Field Notes 2006
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Michiels, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, offers the striking example of hermaphroditic polyclad flatworms called Pseudobiceros bedfordi.
Archive 2006-09-01 Field Notes 2006
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Although spiral cleavage has been modified beyond recognition in some clades, most known mollusks, annelids, nemerteans, and polyclad flatworms show only subtle deviations from a generalized spiral cleavage pattern.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Morgan Q. Goulding 2009
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Although spiral cleavage has been modified beyond recognition in some clades, most known mollusks, annelids, nemerteans, and polyclad flatworms show only subtle deviations from a generalized spiral cleavage pattern.
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ACTivist: polyclad, You can be amusing in an ignorant way but as we used to say in the
novatownhall blog 2008
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