Rhabdopleura \Rhab`do*pleu"ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod
+ ???? the side.] (Zool.)
A genus of marine Bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a
centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a
bilobed lophophore. It is the type of the order
Pterobranchia, or Podostomata
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