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Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing... |
number of specialized feeding mechanisms, such as filter feeding, ram feeding, suction feeding, protrusion, and pivot feeding. Most underwater predators... |
Barnacle (section Filter feeding) Filter-feeding apparatus of Balanus, showing thoracic appendages adapted as feathery cirri Goose barnacles, with their cirri extended for feeding Semibalanus... |
many modes of feeding that animals exhibit, including: Filter feeding: obtaining nutrients from particles suspended in water Deposit feeding: obtaining nutrients... |
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual... |
Antarctic krill (redirect from Antarctic krill filter) This species feeds predominantly on phytoplankton—especially very small diatoms (20 μm), which it filters from the water with a feeding basket. The glass-like... |
Baleen (section Filter feeding) Baleen is a filter-feeding system inside the mouths of baleen whales. To use baleen, the whale first opens its mouth underwater to take in water. The whale... |
the world's temperate oceans. A slow-moving filter feeder, its common name derives from its habit of feeding at the surface, appearing to be basking in... |
measures around 5.2 m (17 ft) long and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark... |
sessile and consist mainly of water pumps and filter-feeding apparatus; salps float in mid-water, feeding on plankton, and have a two-generation cycle... |
earliest filter feeding flamingo Harrisonavis croizeti (Aves, Phoenicopteridae) informs the evolution of the highly specialized filter feeding apparatus"... |
species of colonial ascidian (sea squirt), a group of sessile, marine filter-feeding invertebrates. Originally discovered near Kume Island in Japan by local... |
Atrina rigida (section Filter-feeding) gaping end extending just above the sea bottom surface to facilitate filter-feeding. Algae (e.g. Lobophora variegata) and invertebrates such as sponges... |
copious amounts of baleen-like auxiliary spines. This animal evolving filter-feeding traits was most likely a result of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification... |
bodies to assist in filter-feeding. Secreted from mucus and cellulose, these structures often comprise several layers of filters and can reach up to ten... |
Pharyngeal slits are filter feeding organs that help the movement of water through the mouth and out of these slits when feeding. During the lamprey's... |
barnacles, also called stalked barnacles or gooseneck barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam... |
AM-fee-OK-səs), consist of some 30 to 35 species of "fish-like" benthic filter feeding chordates in the subphylum Cephalochordata, class Leptocardii, and family... |
particles in filter feeders. The structure and spacing of gill rakers in fish determines the size of food particles trapped, and correlates with feeding behavior... |
Hippopus hippopus (section Filter feeding) digestive system of its host. H. hippopus also acquires nutrients through filter feeding, using its inhalant siphon to eat marine microorganisms such as phytoplankton... |