TEREBRATULA

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 32

(Lat. terebro, / bore.) The name of a genus of Palliobranchiate Acephalous Bivalve Moliusks, in which one of the valves is perforated for the transmi ion of a peduncle: the hole through which the peduncle pa es is completed by a small detached calcareous piece. [s. 1246]