protostyle

protostyle
n. [Gr. protos, first; stylos, piller]
(MOLLUSCA)
The stiff mucous rod of early mollusks that transports the food string along the esophagus into the stomach; the forerunner of the crystalline style.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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