protriaenes

protriaenes
n. pl. [L. pro, before; Gr. triaina, trident]
(PORIFERA)
Tetraxons, with three clads directed forward making an angle of less than 45° with the produced axis of the rhabdome.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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