Definition of Sclerites. Meaning of Sclerites. Synonyms of Sclerites

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Definition of Sclerites

Sclerite
Sclerite Scle"rite (skl[=e]"r[imac]t), n. (Zo["o]l.) A hard chitinous or calcareous process or corpuscle, especially a spicule of the Alcyonaria.

Meaning of Sclerites from wikipedia

- scleritome is the complete set of sclerites of an organism, often all that is known from fossil invertebrates. Sclerites may occur practically isolated in...
- Polyplacophora. Sclerites are not homologous to a gastropod operculum. The sclerites of the scaly-foot gastropod are also not homologous to the sclerites found...
- eight rows of sclerites, arranged in bundles. Sclerites are periodically shed and replaced during growth, with the number of sclerites in a given bundle...
- is folded and the sclerites overlap, but when the abdomen fills the arthrodial membrane becomes fully stretched, leaving the sclerites widely separated...
- one sclerite type (although variation in the morphology of the sclerites is observed, and left- and right-sided sclerites exist). Their sclerites are...
- deform it harmfully. Hardened plates in the exoskeleton are called sclerites. Sclerites may be simple protective armour, but also may form mechanical components...
- scattered sclerites, whose form is used to classify them, and some specimens have not yet been ****igned to a species or even genus. Individual sclerites had...
- sclerites provide a stepping stone between the solid chaetae-like chitinous sclerites of Wiwaxia and the partially hollow, biomineralized sclerites of...
- polyphagan beetle groups can be identified by the presence of cervical sclerites (hardened parts of the head used as points of attachment for muscles)...
- isolated sclerites of Microdictyon are known from other Lower Cambrian deposits. Microdictyon sclerites appear to have moulted; one sclerite seems to...