Crossword-Solution: ELASMOBRANCH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elasmobranch | a. | Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. |
| Elasmobranch | n. | One of the Elasmobranchii. |
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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The mandibulo-hyoid cleft (spiracle) of the elasmobranch fishes, the lateral digits of the pig's foot, the hind-limbs of whales, the enlarged digit of the ostrich's foot are supposed to be organs which have been recently modified.
Turning to the Vertebrata, the only Paleozoic Elasmobranch Fish of which we have any complete knowledge is the Devonian and Carboniferous 'Pleuracanthus', which differs no more from existing Sharks than these do from one another.
Turning to the Vertebrata, the only palæozoic Elasmobranch Fish of which we have any complete knowledge is the Devonian and Carboniferous _Pleuracanthus_, which differs no more from existing Sharks than these do from one another.
Discussing this question in his classical work on the development of Elasmobranch fishes,[406] Balfour came to the conclusion "that we must look for the ancestors of the Chordata, not in allies of the present Chætopoda, but in a stock of segmented forms descended from the same unsegmented types as the Chætopoda, but in which two lateral nerve-cords, like those of Nemertines, coalesced dorsally instead of ventrally to form a median nervous cord.
The research work which he began there contributed in an important degree to his election as a fellow of Trinity in 1874, and also afforded him material for a series of papers (published as a monograph in 1878) on the Elasmobranch fishes, which threw new light on [v.03 p.0255] the development of several organs in the Vertebrates, in particular of the uro-genital and nervous systems.