||Sca*phop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from
Gr. ska`fh a boat + -poda.] (Zoöl.)
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open
at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many
long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or
the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also
Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.
||Sca*phop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., from
Gr. ska`fh a boat + -poda.] (Zoöl.)
A class of marine cephalate Mollusca having a tubular shell open
at both ends, a pointed or spadelike foot for burrowing, and many
long, slender, prehensile oral tentacles. It includes Dentalium, or
the tooth shells, and other similar shells. Called also
Prosopocephala, and Solenoconcha.