A paired appendage that is evolved from a paired fin. The extent of this structure includes autopod, stylopod and zeugopod regions when present, but excludes the girdle and its parts. [ UBERONREF:0000003 ]
Synonyms: pentadactyl limb tetrapod limb free limb limb sensu Vertebrata
Term information
- MAT:0000090
- SCTID:243996003
- XAO:0003027
- Wikipedia:Limb
- AAO:0010336
- EFO:0000876
- MIAA:0000090
- GAID:36
- galen:Extremity
- UMLS:C0015385 (ncithesaurus:Limb)
- FMA:24875
- NCIT:C12429
- EHDAA2:0003172
- EHDAA:8273
- EHDAA:1697
- MA:0000007
- EMAPA:16405
- VSAO:0000121
- AEO:0000172
- CALOHA:TS-0552
- VHOG:0000336
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim
Organism subdivision that has as its parts the jointed appendages used for locomotion and manipulation.[AAO]
Most anatomists now agree that the three proximal bones of the tetrapod limbs are homologous to the two or three proximal elements of the paired fin skeleton of other sarcopterygians, that is the humerus-femur, radius-tibia, and ulna-fibula.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- paired limb/fin
- existence ends during some fully formed stage
- confers advantage in some terrestrial biome
- only in taxon some Tetrapoda
- develops from some limb bud
- has part some skeleton of limb