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abactinal: Definition from Answers.com ... Vertebrates are bilaterally symmetrical ANIMALS with an internal skeleton of bone or cartilage consisting of, at least, a vertebral column and skull.
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Rays 5, soft and weak; abactinal skeleton reduced to isolated small spiniferous plates sometimes interspersed with vestigial perforated spineless platelets ; ...
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Resembling Spormterias, but the abactinal skeleton typically reduced to an open, delicate irregular mesh, entirely hidden by thick pulpy skin, which in the adult, ...
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abactinal plates abactinal skeleton actinal intermediate plates Actinal interradial areas actinal surface actinolateral adambulacral armature adambulacral plates ...
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of asteroids is equally ancient. Evidence presented here sug- gests that marginals in the earliest asterozoans are part of this axially derived abactinal skeleton.
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ginals, and the loosely tessellate abactinal skeleton bearing skin-covered spinelets all to be similar to patterns seen in the Asteropseidae, but that Metrodlra ...
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Abactinal skeleton close reticulum of oblong, trilobate or cruciform plates obscured by thick membrane; plates with from 5–15 short flattened, hyaline spinelets ...
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Plate 2. A, B, Peribolaster lictor sp. nov.; A, abactinal skeleton and armature, midway along arm of holotype; B, oral, adambulacral and inferomarginal plates.
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of asteroids is equally ancient. Evidence presented here sug- gests that marginals in the earliest asterozoans are part of this axially derived abactinal skeleton.
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number of rays, the reticulated abactinal skeleton, the numerous spines, and the form and arrangement of the adambulacral ar- mature. The number of rays ...
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