Any of various small slender reddish freshwater worms of the genus Tubifex, often used as food for tropical aquarium fish.
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Any of a genus (Tubifex) of small, reddish, freshwater, oligochaete worms, often living in chimneylike tubes: found esp. in polluted waters and often used as food for aquarium fish.
New Latin Tubifexgenus name Latin tubustube Latin -fexmakerdhē- in Indo-European roots
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American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Tubifex Sentence Examples
The more complete replacements, such as the nephridia of the genital segment of Tubifex by a subsequently formed genital duct, may be compared with the succession of the nesonephros to the pronephros in vertebrates, and of the metanephros to the mesonephros in the higher vertebrates..
Caryophyllaeus mutabilis occurs in the roach and other fresh-water fish, and passes its earlier stages of development in fresh-water Oligochaets (Tubifex).
Archigetes appendiculatus lives throughout life in the coelom of Tubifex and of Limnodrilus.
Caryophyllaeus is an elongated, flattened worm provided with one extremely mobile extremity, the other being drawn out during the animal's sojourn in Tubifex into a short hexacanth tail.
It has been shown that in Tubifex, and some other aquatic Oligochaeta, the genital segments are at first provided with nephridia, and that these disappear on the appearance of the generative ducts, which are coelomoducts.