Testacea (Noun)
Meaning
Testacean rhizopods.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Testacean rhizopods, also known as testacea, are characterized by their outer shell composed of distinct shells or testae.
- The testacea can grow, but the shell mainly stays the same shape and size.
- Testacea, a class of amoeboid protozoans, possess pseudopodia that are various shapes, allowing them different sensory and movement behaviors.
- These testacea, being ancient and numerous in oceans, could serve an important part of explaining the formation of sediment in oceans.
- Many types of testacea have variations of protective and structural test or shells around their usually rounded bodies.