BRACHIOPOD A

[Duméril] (Lat.), n. n. pl. Bra?k(bra?ch?)-i2- 07p'o7d-a8. From Bpaxiæv, the arm, and movs, the foot. Fr., brachiopodes. Ger., Brachiopoden, Armfü er. Syn.: Lampades, Palliobranchiata [De Blainville]. 1, A cla of marine Mollusca having an inequivalve and equilateral shell, and on each side of the mouth a long, spirally coiled arm fringed with tentacles which were formerly supposed to take the place of feet. They never multiply by gemmation nor give rise to compound organisms. In the larval state they resemble the Polyzoa and the Chætopoda, and by some they are not regarded as molluses. They are divided into the Articulata and the Inarticulata. [B; L, 11, 201,210, 227, 292.] 2. Of Leuckart, an order of the Acephala. [L, 231.]