"pleurembolic" meaning in English

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          "text": "Some scattered melanophores in fundus of atrium, a few pigment cells along seminal groove. Male atrium (a) narrow in front, wide behind. Its fundus forms a deep fold which receives seminal groove and functions as pleurembolic penis (p).",
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          "text": "The proboscis wall itself is highly muscular and has longitudinal, circular and diagonal muscle layers. It is of the pleurembolic type characteristic of the Buccinacea.",
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          "text": "The acrembolic type has appeared independently several times in gastropods, including some heterobranchs, while the pleurembolic proboscis may have appeared only once.",
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