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presents a
large surface area to the
external environment.
Branchia (pl.:
branchiae) is the zoologists' name for
gills (from
Ancient Gr**** βράγχια). With...
- Look up Gill,
branchiae, gill, gilled, or
gills in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gill is an
aquatic respiratory organ. Gill or
Gills may also refer...
- (sing. pa****; also
occasionally papulla, papullae), also
known as
dermal branchiae or skin gills, are
projections of the
coelom of
Asteroidea that serve...
- of
marine polychaete tube
worms characterized by
protruding feathery branchiae.
Sabellids build tubes out of a tough, parchment-like exudate, strengthened...
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decapods and some
other crustaceans is the area of the body
containing the
branchiae, or gills. In shrimp-like decapods,
water enters the
chamber from the...
- This
species can grow to be up to 6 in (150 mm) long. It has
tufted branchiae, used for respiration,
starting on the
second segment of its body and...
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swimming acrocirrids by
their transparent bodies, and
single medial subulate branchiae. The
acrocirridae are
closely related to the flabelligeridae, a sister...
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often lacks any
respiratory pigment.
Gaseous exchange occurs via
dermal branchiae or pa****e in starfish,
genital bursae in
brittle stars, peristominal...
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function or act as
limbs and the
neurosetae are
rostrate hooks.
There are
branchiae present on some of the
setigers in the
middle or
posterior regions. Apart...
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series of
appendages along the
anterior edges of the gill arches. gills,
branchiae Organs for
breathing the
oxygen contained in water, and for excreting...
