Definition of Pulmonates. Meaning of Pulmonates. Synonyms of Pulmonates

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Definition of Pulmonates

Pulmonate
Pulmonate Pul"mo*nate, a. (Zo["o]l.) (a) Having breathing organs that act as lungs. (b) Pertaining to the Pulmonata. -- n. One of the Pulmonata.

Meaning of Pulmonates from wikipedia

- Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group (previously an order, and before that, a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe...
- butterflies respire through their general body surface. Although not true pulmonates, some operculate land snails, such as the Cyclophoridae have also lost...
- Pulmonate may refer to Having lungs; in particular Pulmonata, gastropods which breathe through pallial lungs Pulmonate arthropods, which breathe through...
- symbiotic ciliate living in the body slime and mantle cavity of terrestrial pulmonates which was rediscovered after almost 30 years. Zhang, Tengyue; Vďačný,...
- process of being revised in light of DNA sequencing. It appears that pulmonates are paraphyletic and basal to the opisthobranchs, which are a terminal...
- scorpions. Scorpiones is sister to the Tetrapulmonata, a terrestrial group of pulmonates containing the spiders and whip scorpions. This 2019 cladogram summarizes:...
- informal groups: the lower heterobranchs, the opisthobranchs and the pulmonates. The three subdivisions of this large clade are quite diverse: The Lower...
- respiratory protein in almost all gastropods is hemocyanin, but one freshwater pulmonate family, the Planorbidae, have hemoglobin as the respiratory protein. In...
- Mastigoproctus giganteus is included with the Tetrapulmonata in a clade within the pulmonate Arachnida (those with book lungs), most closely related to spiders Araneae...
- Non‑pulmonates (ticks, harvestmen, etc) pulmonates...