diporpa
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]diporpa (plural diporpae)
- (zoology) A juvenile diplozoid that has not yet coupled with another individual.
- 2007, Graham C. Kearn, Leeches, Lice and Lampreys:
- As noted above, the diporpa is capable of locomotion and if it should meet another diporpa, the ventral sucker of one individual grasps the dorsal papilla of the other.