Eels are apodal. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I tell you all this because I don't want to pose as a kind of apodal angel of mercy. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
Adventral tubercle: on the abdominal segments of caterpillars on the inner base of the leg, and correspondingly on the apodal segments; constant: is number VIII of the abdominal series (Dyar). From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Pedal tubercle: on the thoracic and abdominal rings of caterpillars: on the anterior side of leg-base and, correspondingly, on apodal segments: is VII of the abdomen where it consists of three setae: VI of the thorax where the setae are not numbered: constant (Dyar). From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Though the larvæ of bees are apodal, they are not condemned to absolute immobility in their cells; for they can move by a spiral motion. From Wordnik.com. [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference
Figures of apodal reptiles, with feathers represented on their heads, occur in Sikyatki pictography, although there is no resemblance in the markings of their bodies to those of modern pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744] Reference
Obviously the mystical "security," the "apodal sufficiency" yielded by the anaesthetic revelation, are very different moods of mind from aught that rationalism can claim to father -- more active, prouder, more heroic. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Studies] Reference
The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference
Apodous: without feet; see apodal. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
I. - apodal. From Wordnik.com. [An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States] Reference
The series of reptiles, for instance, in the family of lizards, shows apodal forms, forms with rudimentary feet, then with a successively larger number of fingers until we reach, by seemingly insensible gradations, the genera Anguis, Ophisaurus, and Pseudopus, the Chamosauria, Chirotes, Bipes, Sepo, Scincus, and at last the true lizards. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence]
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