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An Illustrated and Cross-Referenced Glossary of Malacological and Conchological Terms |
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| by Paul S. Mikkelsen | |||
| Term | Definition |
| PHLEBOEDESIS | A process proposed by Lankester, who held that molluscs were derived from segmented annelids that had already acquired a full coelom, in which enlarged blood spaces encroached on the COELOM and reduced it to its molluscan dimensions; see also: PAEDOMORPHOSIS. | |
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