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Definition of Aplacental

Aplacental
Aplacental Ap`la*cen"tal, a. [Pref. a- + placental.] Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.

Meaning of Aplacental from wikipedia

- Ovoviviparity, ovovivipary, ovivipary, or aplacental viviparity is a term used as a "bridging" form of reproduction between egg-laying oviparous and live-bearing...
- thought to be a slow-moving predator of small benthic organisms. It is aplacental viviparous, with females giving birth to litters of around seven pups...
- producing light from a distinctive array of photop****s. Reproduction is aplacental viviparous, with females gestating two or three young at a time. The dwarf...
- prey, mostly benthic bony fishes, but also skates and invertebrates. An aplacental viviparous species, females bear litters of seven to 25 pups every other...
- been do****ented within the aggregations at Poor Knights. This species is aplacental viviparous, with the developing embryos sustained by histotroph ("uterine...
- between po****tions of sharks living in different regions. This species is aplacental viviparous, meaning that the young hatch inside the uterus and are nourished...
- it also takes molluscs, polychaete worms, and small bony fishes. It is aplacental viviparous: the embryos are nourished by yolk and later histotroph ("uterine...
- the rays separate and withdraw to shelters on the reef. Reproduction is aplacental viviparous, with females giving birth to litters of up to seven young...
- and results in live birth. Viviparity in sharks can be placental or aplacental. Young are born fully formed and self-sufficient. Hammerheads, the requiem...
- hunt both on the sea floor and well above it in open water. It is likely aplacental viviparous, with the mother supplying her gestating young with histotroph...