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Tagma vs Metamere - What's the difference?

tagma | metamere |

As nouns the difference between tagma and metamere

is that tagma is a specialized grouping of arthropodan segments, such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen with a common function while metamere is one of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.

tagma

English

(wikipedia tagma)

Noun

(tagmata)
  • (anatomy) A specialized grouping of arthropodan segments, such as the head, the thorax, and the abdomen with a common function.

    • metamere

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.

    • Related terms

    * metamerism (Webster 1913)