pteropods

pteropods

美 　英

• adj.翼足目的
• n.翼足目 动物
• 网络翼足类；翼足类动物；翼足类生物

词形变化

复数：pteropods  

英汉解释

adj.	1. 翼足目的
n.	1. 翼足目 (Pteropoda) 动物

英英解释

n.	1. a ocean gastropod mollusk that has a foot with wing-shaped lobes that are used as swimming organs.

例句

If reshaping food webs marginalises the pteropods, the salmon will have to adapt or die.

如果重新形成的食物网里翼足类动物数量锐减，粉鲑将必须适应，否则就会饿死。

But though the mesocosms may shed light on the fate of the pteropods, the outlook for the salmon will remain conjectural.

但虽然“中型实验生态系”可以让我们看到翼足类的命运，但鲑鱼的命运仍然只是我们的猜测。

In some areas even aragonitic shells of the pelagic molluscs pteropods coat the sea floor .

在有些地区，甚至深海软体动物翼足类的文石贝壳可铺满海底。

Dr Riebesell is particularly interested in the ecosystem role of pteropods, also called sea butterflies.

里贝赛尔博士尤其感兴趣的是一类叫做“翼足类”，也叫“海蝴蝶”的生物在生态系统中的作用。

Ocean acidification strips seawater of the carbonate ion that pteropods need to build new shells, and it also damages their existing ones.

海洋酸化不仅使pteropods用来构成他们新外壳的碳酸离子减少，而且还会损害它们原来的外壳。

One fear is that the increasing acidity will kill off pteropods and similar creatures with calcium-carbonate shells or skeletons.

一个担忧是，越来越高的酸度将毁灭翼足类动物和类似具有碳酸钙外壳或骨架的动物。

Late Quaternary Pteropods in the South China Sea - Carbonate Preservation and Paleoenvironmental Variation

南海晚第四纪翼足类：碳酸盐保存和古环境变化