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Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the
breath out of an organism. In animals, it is the
movement of air from the
lungs out of the airways, to the...
- Gonad, 7. Gut, 8. V-shaped muscles, 9. ****, 10.
Inhalant syphon, 11.
Exhalant syphon, 12. Heart, 13. Stomach, 14. Esophagus, 15. Intestines, 16. Tail...
- of the
mantle cavity.
There is an
inhalant or
incurrent siphon, and an
exhalant or
excurrent siphon. The
water is
circulated by the
action of the gills...
- by a
byssus to a substrate. The
mantle has
three apertures (inhalant,
exhalant, and pedal) for
siphoning water and for the foot to protrude. ****les typically...
- inhalant)
siphon and
expel the
filtered water through the
excurrent (or
exhalant) siphon.
Adult ascidian tunicates are sessile,
immobile and permanently...
- particles.
Water is
inhaled through an
inhalant siphon, and
exhaled through an
exhalant siphon. It
tolerates a wide
range of
salinity (euryhaline), and wide range...
- the gape, and
ejecting it
through small holes near the
hinge line
called exhalant apertures, or backward/dorsally (termed jumping) by
ejecting the water...
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Posterior adductor muscle Anterior adductor muscle Frontal gill Back gill
Exhalant aperture Inhalant aperture Foot
Pseudotooth The
hingeline and ligament...
- the
mantle wall contract; this
causes the
inhalant valve to close, the
exhalant valve to open and the
mantle edge to lock
tightly around the head. Water...
- (mamelons) and star-shaped
crevices (astrorhizae),
which together help vent
exhalant water away from the
living surface. Internally,
stromatoporoids have a...
