Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

ceratas

English translation:

cerata/ceras

Added to glossary by Rebecca Hendry
Nov 6, 2006 13:03
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Spanish term

ceratas

Spanish to English Science Zoology
Extract from a chapter from a book on ecology. TIA, Jason.

Una parte del material vegetal absorbido es digerido inmediatamente, pero en algunas especies de sacoglosos los cloroplastos del alga son retenidos, no son digeridos y permanecen activos durante semanas e incluso meses en las células de la glándula digestiva. A menudo el molusco alberga tantos cloroplastos que tiene el color de éstos, normalmente verde, pero a veces rojo. Además, hay asimismo pigmentos propios. Se les ha calificado de moluscos criptogámicos, y se ha hablado de parasimbiosis o de simbiosis de cloroplastos en referencia a esta asociación, que implica importantes adaptaciones de los animales, como las morfológicas del manto y de los **ceratas**, o de comportamiento; cleptoplastia es también un término común para referirse a este fenómeno. Pero mientras es cierto que hay adaptación, no es tan claro que haya simbiosis, por lo que se dirá más adelante.

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cerata/ceras

The name CERAS (plural CERATA) is from the classical Greek word keratos = horn and is a reference to its shape.

All aeolids have these dorsal and lateral outgrowths of the body. They are a blood-filled tube which contains a duct of the digestive gland.


www.diveoz.com.au - Nudibranchs Reference AreaCerata or in the singular, ceras, are finger like protrusions on aeolid, ... The Aeolids and the Dendronotaceans use their cerata the outer surface (ceratal ...
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Figure 1: Top-down picture of my hitchhiking nudibranch; its ...The aeolids in my tank, however, were soon discovered to eat anemones. ... Figure 7: Rhinophores, oral tentacles and ceras of a nudibranch, ...
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agree John Speese : Yes, nudibranchs (babosas) are fascinating critters...and I've read that some can even use the stinging cells 1 time that they absorb from the anemones that they eat.
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agree Michele Fauble
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch
The word "nudibranch" comes from Latin nudus meaning "naked", and Greek brankhia meaning "gills". The name is appropriate since the dorids (infraclass Anthobranchia) breathe through a branchial plume of bushy extremities on their back, rather than using gills. By contrast, on the back of the aeolids in infraclass Cladobranchia there are brightly colored sets of tentacles called cerata.
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INBio. Especies de Costa Rica -Phidiana lascrucensis - Translate this page
... of Sciences (Department of Invertebrate Zoology), nº 019048 (holotipo) ... ligeramente más cortos que los ceratas, provistos de 15 anillos que rodean ...darnis.inbio.ac.cr/FMPro?-DB=UBIpub.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-Format=/...&-Find - More from this s
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papilla

Papilla: a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; "the papillae of the tongue"


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OK! point taken
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disagree BelkisDV : It stays the same.
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