brachiopod

/ˈbɹækɪəˌpɒd/

Any of many marine invertebrates, of the phylum Brachiopoda, that have bivalve dorsal and ventral shells with two tentacle-bearing arms that capture food

armpotigen

any of the many marine invertebrates of the phylum Brachiopoda


waldheimia

From translingual Waldheimia, from Waldheim + -ia.

Any of the extinct brachiopod genus †Waldheimia, now a subgenus of Terebratus.


terebratulid

(zoology) A brachiopod of the order Terebratulida, having a short pedicle and a calcareous loop supporting the tentacles.


discina

(zoology) Any member of the brachiopod genus Discina.


orthid

(zoology) A brachiopod shell of the genus †Orthis (or allied genera) in the family †Orthidae.


terebratula

(zoology) Any of the genus Terebratula of brachiopods.


tongue-shell

Any species of the brachipod genus Lingula, or similar species.


spirifer

From Latin spira (“a coil”) + fero (“I bear”).

(paleontology) Any of numerous species of fossil brachiopods of the genera †Spirifer and †Delthyris and allied genera in order †Spiriferida, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.


craniid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Craniidae.


discinid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Discinidae.


obolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Obolidae of lamp shells.


rhynchonella

It is quite possible that the Maine rhynchonellas described as R. aspasia by Billings were descended from some one of these earlier rhynchonellas not yet separated into special (literary) groups.

1900, Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey:

The material from Mejdel Shems includes a few pyritized ammonites (Nos. 5336-5339) and a couple of non-pyritized rhynchonellas (Nos. 5340-5341), all of Jurassic age.

1905, William Libbey, Franklin Evans Hoskins, The Jordan Valley and Petra - Volume 2, page 353:

Of the fossils which occur in great numbers, rhynchonellas, spirifers, and encrinites are common.

1912, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral Resources - Issues 15-20, page 59:

One of the most important of recent discoveries is that of the rhynchonella fossil in tubicolar sandstones at the Thistle Mine near Lorinna.

1919, Geological Survey Bulletin - Issue 30, page 34:

We have been unable to follow Chaput's description in detail, but we think that our (b) corresponds with his "reddish clays and marls with blocks of marly limestones", from which latter he obtained some of his Sowerbyceras tortistdcatum, mentioned above, as well as rhynchonellas of the group arolica (1936, pp. 52, 53).

1956, Transactions - The Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 62, page 428:

(zoology) Any member of the extinct genus †Rhynchonella of brachiopod found in Silurian to Eocene strata worldwide.


camborthid

(geology) A type of orthid that has a type of cambic horizon


linguliform

Any brachiopod of the subphylum Linguliformea


strophomenid

(zoology) Any of the Strophomenida, a large extinct order of articulate brachiopods.


athyride

Origination rates were substantially higher within pentameride, spiriferide, and athyride brachiopods, all of which increase in diversity in this interval [39 ].

2015 December 15, “Phylogenetic Clustering of Origination and Extinction across the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Any brachiopod of the order †Athyridida.


atrypid

Ribs and growth lamellae gave the shells of many atrypids the possibility to develop an array of structures.

2004, Paul Copper, Silurian (late Llandovery-Ludlow) Atrypid Brachiopods from Gotland, Sweden, and the Welsh Borderlands, Great Britain:

A lamp shell; a brachiopod of the order, sometimes suborder, †Atrypida


productoid

(zoology) Any member of the suborder Productoidea, a large group of Upper Paleozoic brachiopods.


dielasmatid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Dielasmatidae.


rhynchonellid

However, it is the large-sized rhynchonellids that have been most readily identified to date as members of ancient hydrocarbon seep communities.

2010, Steffen Kiel, The Vent and Seep Biota: Aspects from Microbes to Ecosystems:

(zoology) Any brachiopod of the order Rhynchonellida.


billingsellacean

The Obolellida and the basic articulate stock, the billingsellaceans, appear later in the lower Cambrian. The orthide billingsellaceans with their strophic hinge lines, deltidiodont dentition and invariably calcareous shells, comprise two families which, although morphologically similar, have a fundamentally different style of shell secretion, reflected in their various descendants.

1979, Michael Robert House, The Origin of major invertebrate groups, page 235:

(zoology) Any brachiopod of the superfamily Billingsellacea.


kutorginid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Kutorginidae.

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the order Kutorginida.


stringocephalid

This environmental behaviour suggests that all of these thick-shelled groups (and possibly similar groups like the stringocephalids and rensselandids) may have become so modified during the process of natural selection as not to have been able to have moved from the positions into which they found themselves.

2011, A.J. Boucot, Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls, page 232:

(zoology) Any brachiopod of the family Stringocephalidae.


athyridacean

Any brachiopod of the superfamily Athyridacea


atrypacean

This size difference applies to many of the Silurian-Devonian families including the spiriferids, chonetids, atrypoids, atrypaceans, and some pentameroids (mostly among the gyidulids) (Boucot et al. 2012).

2013, Rituparna Bose, Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods: A Case Study:

Any brachiopod of the superfamily Atrypacea.


centronellid

Any of the extinct brachiopods in the family Centronellidae.


plaesiomyid

Any extinct lamp shell of the family Plaesiomyidae


clitambonitidine

Any brachiopod of the suborder Clitambonitidina


chonetacean

Any extinct brachiopod of the genus Chonetes


dalmanelloid

Any brachiopod of the superfamily Dalmanelloidea


dalmanellidine

Any brachiopod of the suborder Dalmanellidina


pygopid

Any extinct brachiopod of the family Pygopidae


terebratulide

Any brachiopod of the order Terebratulida


chonetoid

Any brachiopod of the superfamily Chonetoidea


dimerelloid

Any brachiopod of the superfamily Dimerelloidea


pentameride

Any extinct brachiopod of the order †Pentamerida


terebratellidine

Any brachiopod of the suborder Terebratellidina


三味線貝

ja-noun

三(しゃ)味(み)線(せん)貝(がい) • (shamisengai) ^(←しやみせんがひ (syamisengafi)?)

三味線貝 (canonical)
shamisengai (romanization)
syamisengafi (romanization)
しやみせんがひ (hiragana historical)

[ɕa̠mʲisẽ̞ŋɡa̠i]

Compound of 三味線 (shamisen, a Japanese plucked string instrument) + 貝 (kai, “shellfish”).
The kai changes to gai as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

compound

a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod of the family Lingulidae

酸漿貝

lampshell excluding the lingulate brachiopods


女冠者

ja-noun

女(め)冠(か)者(じゃ) • (mekaja) ^(←めくわじや (mekwazya)?)

女冠者 (canonical)
mekaja (romanization)
mekwazya (romanization)
めくわじや (hiragana historical)

1689, Ihara Saikaku, 一目玉鉾 [Hitotsume Tamaboko]:

• Lord of Yanagawa: Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono (Tachibana Akitora)
　Specialties here: umitake (bamboo coral), mekaja (lamp shell), agemaki (Sinonovacula constricta) that is a shell of the rocky shore

○柳川の城主 立花飛騨守殿
 此所の名物 海竹 女冠者 あげまき 是礒貝也

• Yanagawa no jōshu Tachibana Hida-no-kami-dono
 Koko no meibutsu umitake mekaja agemaki kore isogai nari

(dialectal, Northwestern Kyūshū) a lamp shell, lingulate brachiopod (Lingulidae)


strophomenoid

(paleontology) A brachiopod in the superfamily Strophomenoidea.


terebratellid

(zoology) Any brachiopod in the family Terebratellidae.