||Si`pho*no*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Siphon, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.)
A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both
sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the
gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this
group.
||Si`pho*no*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Siphon, and Branchia.] (Zoöl.)
A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both
sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the
gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this
group.