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- Ctenidium (plural: ctenidia) may refer to: Ctenidium (mollusc) (plural: ctenidia), a comb-like gill, part of the respiratory system of molluscs Ctenidium...
- Ctenidia mordelloides is a species of beetle in the family Mordellidae, the only species in the genus Ctenidia and the only species in the subfamily Ctenidiinae...
- the ctenidia (gills) reside in the pallial grooves. This also takes care of waste produced as the water p****es over the **** after the ctenidia and carries...
- marine snails. Certain molluscs, such as the bivalves, possess paired ctenidia, but others, such as members of the Ampullariidae, bear a single ctenidium...
- such as the radula and the odontop****. Their gills have evolved into ctenidia, specialised organs for feeding and breathing. Common bivalves include...
- there are considerable differences. Some examples of this are: in the ctenidia (equivalent to lungs or gills) in some species, one side may be reduced...
- a prismatic layer, lined with nacre. The organism bears five pairs of ctenidia (gills), unusually for molluscs; the rear two are homologous to the two...
- the body is an opening to the mantle cavity, which contains the gills (ctenidia) and openings from the excretory, digestive and reproductive systems. An...
- nautilus has what appears to be a set of osphradia), on or adjacent to the ctenidia (gills). The main function of this organ is disputed but it is believed...
- The repeated organs include from three to six pairs of "gills" (actually ctenidia) located in a curved line along each side of the foot (though the number...