air sacs

air sacs
1. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta)
Pouch-like enlargements of tracheal tubes in winged forms, usually lacking taenidia, capable of inflation and thought to function as an aid in flight and to lessen specific gravity.
2. (CNIDARIA: Hydrozoa)
In Siphonophora, that portion of a pneumatophore that contains gas.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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