HAMIFORM. (Hamus, a hook.) Curved at the extremity.
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Hamiform
//ˈheɪmɪfɔːm//
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11 translations across 3 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- koukkumainen adj (shaped like a hook)
- päästä käyristynyt adj (conchology: curved at the extremity)
Hungarian
4 entries- horgas adj (conchology: curved at the extremity)
- horgos adj (conchology: curved at the extremity)
- horog/kampó alakú adj (shaped like a hook)
- horogszerű adj (shaped like a hook)
Swedish
3 entries- hakformig adj (conchology: curved at the extremity)
- hakformig adj (shaped like a hook)
- krokformad adj (shaped like a hook)
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Hamiform, curved at the extremity.
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Distinguished by the elongated hamiform siphonal canal and the posterior canal co-ordinated with the “facies” of Aporrhais.
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Legs (♂) light: anterior femora long, rather narrow; a short cylindrical hamiform process (a hook with apex sharply bent towards base of femur) projecting from lower side at about ⅓ of its length: anterior tibiæ long, narrow on basal half, wide at apex, nor curved; intermediate long (longer than femora), strongly curved inwards; posterior long, slender: anterior tarsi stout, joints not dilatate, 5th longest, longer than three preceding together, basal joint much longer than 2nd, squamulose in middle of lower side near apex, 2nd and 3rd joints with two narrow rows of squamæ in middle of lower side; four posterior tarsi narrow, cylindrical, posterior much longer than intermediate; posterior coxæ contiguous.
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