- cryptocyst
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English-Russian dictionary of geology. 2011.
English-Russian dictionary of geology. 2011.
cryptocyst — n. [Gr. kryptos, hidden; kystis, bladder] (BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata) 1. One of the two basic wall morphologies of bryozoans consisting of wholly interior walls, leaving a superficial hypostegal coelom uniting contiguous zooids; see gymnocyst. 2. A… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
gymnocyst — n. [Gr. gymnos, bare; kystis, bladder] 1. (BRYOZOA) A simple type of wall morphology that adds exterior walls to the ends of interior walls, thereby separating adjacent zooids that remain in communication through interzooidal pores. gymnocystal… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
opesiule — n. [Gr. dim. ope, hole] (BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata) One of the small notches or pores in a cryptocyst through which the frontal membrane depressor muscles pass … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
opesium — n.; pl. ia [Gr. dim. ope, hole] (BRYOZOA: Gymnolaemata) In Anasca, a large opening below the frontal membrane bordered by the cryptocyst; functioning as a passageway for the lophophore in some species … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology