Crossword-Solution: ENTEROPNEUSTA
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| Enteropneusta | n. pl. | A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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The Enteropneusta (Figure 2.245) live in the sea sand, and are long worms of very simple shape, like the Nemertina.
These are the _Nemertina_ and the _Enteropneusta._ Both classes have a complete ciliary coat on the epidermis, a heritage from the Turbellaria and the Gastræads; also, both have two openings of the gut, the mouth and anus, like the Gastrotricha.
The gill-slits of _Balanoglossus_, with their close resemblance in detail to those of Amphioxus, Bateson also used as an argument in favour of the phylogenetic relationship of the Enteropneusta and Vertebrata, together with the formation from the ectoderm of a dorsal nerve tube.
Thus, on the ground of a presumed analogy of certain structures to the vertebrate notochord, several invertebrate groups, as the Enteropneusta, the Rhabdopleura, the Nemertea, were supposed to be, if not ancestral, at least offshoots from the direct line of vertebrate descent.
The remaining two families of Enteropneusta, _Ptychoderidae_ and _Spengelidae_, contain species of which probably all pursue an indirect course of development, culminating in a metamorphosis by which the adult form is attained.