Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
supra-anal . - noun Specifically, in entomology, a plate at the end of the body of a caterpillar, the tergite of the tenth abdominal segment.
- noun A plate in the test of some echinoids, such as Salenia, lying in front of the anus.
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Examples
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C.V. Riley (1880) and W. Hatchett-Jackson (1890) have shown that it corresponds with a spiny area, the suranal plate, which lies above the opening of the caterpillar's intestine.
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The caterpillar, hanging head downwards, is attached to the silken pad by its hindmost pair of pro-legs or claspers and by the suranal plate, and the cuticle is slowly worked off from before backwards, so as to expose the pupa.
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