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Definition of Ambulacra

Ambulacra
Ambulacrum Am`bu*la"crum, n.; pl. Ambulacra. [L., an alley or covered way.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays. (b) One of the suckers on the feet of mites.

Meaning of Ambulacra from wikipedia

- Ambulacrum is an architectural word that denotes an atrium, courtyard, or parvise in front of a basilica or church that is surrounded by arcades or colonnades...
- Radiating like flower petals from the center were five food grooves, or ambulacra. Each ambulacrum had many long thin fine structures called brachioles...
- 14th Nov 2014]. The Free Dictionary (n.d.) ambulacra, [online] Available at: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ambulacra [Accessed 14th Nov 2014]. v t e...
- center of the upper surface, with ambulacra radiating from it in the 2-1-2 pattern common in early echinoderms. The ambulacra are straight in juveniles, but...
- dorsal and a ventral surface. As in other Echinozoans, there are five ambulacra separated by five ambulacral grooves, the interambulacra. The ambulacral...
- 2005 — Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation, Brazil †Dinodiplura ambulacra Selden, 2005 †Seldischnoplura Raven, Jell & Knezour, 2015 — Early Cretaceous...
- feature consisted of five arms, or ambulacra, in the body wall radiating outwards from the central mouth. The ambulacra grew either curved or straight. When...
- shown that genes directing anterior-most development are expressed along ambulacra in the center of starfish rays, with the next-most-anterior genes expressed...
- laterally placed rather than being at the center of the upper surface. Five ambulacra radiated outwards from the mouth across the lower surface, but only continued...
- bowling pin (with the pin part stuck into the substrate), and that the five ambulacra were split into pairs of coiled or straight, ribbon-like strands. Six...