Ostracoderm vs Agnathan - What's the difference?
ostracoderm | agnathan | Hyponyms |
Ostracoderm has no English definition.
(zoology) Belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.
* 2005 , Tim Haines and Paul Chambers, The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life , BBC Books, page 20:
(zoology) A member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates.
* 1956 , D. R. Newth, "On the Neural Crest of the Lamprey Embryo", Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology , volume 4, page 358:
* 1992 , Peter J. Hanley et al., "Hagfish Humoral Defense Protein Exhibits Structural and Functional Homology with Mammalian Complement Components", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , volume 89, page 7910:
Agnathan is a hyponym of ostracoderm.
Ostracoderm is likely misspelled.
Ostracoderm has no English definition.
As an adjective agnathan is
belonging or pertaining to the superclass Agnatha, the jawless vertebrates.As a noun agnathan is
a member of the superclass Agnatha of jawless vertebrates.ostracoderm
Not English
Ostracoderm has no English definition. It may be misspelled.agnathan
English
(wikipedia agnathan)Adjective
(en adjective)- Haikouichthys is one of three species of jawless (or agnathan ) fish to be found in the Early Cambrian period.
Noun
(en noun)- Thus should the cranial neural crest in cyclostomes prove to be non-skeletogenous this might be a reflection either of its own primitiveness or of the different evolutionary origins and morphological status of the visceral skeleton in agnathans and gnathostomes.
- The hagfish is an agnathan , a modern representative of the earliest evolved group of vertebrates, the ostracoderms or jawless fishes, which arose prior to the ancient placoderms (3).