ne|o|pi|li|na

ne|o|pi|li|na «_NEE oh pih LY nuh», noun.

a primitive mollusk found at great depths in the Pacific Ocean. It is a living representative of an animal group which had previously been known to exist only as fossils 300 to 500 million years old. »

The structure of neopilina shows it is much like the annelids, or segmented worms (Science News Letter).

╂[< New Latin Neopilina the genus name]