Category:Rhabdopleura

Rhab`do*pleu"ra, n. Etym: [nl., fr. Gr. "ra`bdos a rod + (zoöl.)

Defn: a genus of marine bryozoa in which the tubular cells have a Centralchitinous axis and the tentacles are borne on a bilobed Lophophore. It is the type of the order pterobranchia, or podostomata