Definition of Stomochords. Meaning of Stomochords. Synonyms of Stomochords

- The stomochord is a flexible, hollow tube found in hemichordates. Stomochords arise in embryonic development as an outpocketing from the roof of the embryonic...
- possess branchial openings, or "gill slits". They have notochords and stomochords but no dorsal nerve cord. Their heads are between 2.5 mm (1/10 in) and...
- openings that open into the pharynx and look rather like gill slits; stomochords, similar in composition to notochords, but running in a circle round...
- cavity approx. 100 Hemichordata Half cord: 344  Acorn worms, hemichordates Stomochord in collar, pharyngeal slits approx. 130 extant Kinorhyncha Motion snout...
- present throughout life in many of the earliest chordates. Although the stomochord of hemichordates was once thought to be homologous or from a common lineal...
- to taste. The mouth cavity is tubular, with a narrow diverticulum or stomochord extending up into the proboscis. This diverticulum was once thought to...
- common stolon system. They have a diverticulum of the foregut called a stomochord, previously thought to be related to the chordate notochord, but this...
- with functional convergences. The notochords in chordates are like the stomochords in hemichordates. Gastrotrichs, despite being in 2 different superphyla...
- species, and the stomochord reduced in adults. Terminstomo arcticus have lost the heart, blood sinus and proboscis skeleton, and has a stomochord that extends...