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- animal's body. Nephridia come in two basic categories: metanephridia and protonephridia. All nephridia- and kidney- having animals belong to the clade Nephrozoa...
- kidney, removing waste materials. Bundles of flame cells are called protonephridia. The flame cell has a nucleated cell body, with a "cup-shaped" projection...
- part of respiration, and the protonephridia are believed to function mainly in osmoregulation. Unusually, the protonephridia do not take the form of flame...
- referred to as amphioxus (genus Branchiostoma), utilize solenocytic protonephridia to perform excretion. In addition to excretion, these cells contribute...
- like some other flatworms, cestodes excrete waste through flame cells (protonephridia) located in the proglottids. The sum of the proglottids is called a...
- groove that conducts food to the mouth. Most species have a pair of protonephridia which extract soluble wastes from the internal fluids and eliminate...
- 2 - apical tuft 3 - prototroch 4 - metatroch 5 - nephridium 6 - **** 7 - protonephridia 8 - gastrointestinal tract 9 - buccal opening 10 - blastocoele...
- metanephridia to remove soluble waste products, while those without use protonephridia. Both of these systems use a two-stage filtration process, in which...
- Their male and female organs are closely ****ociated with the excretory protonephridia. They comprise a pair of branching tufts, each of which opens to the...
- called protonephridia to excrete soluble waste products, especially nitrogenous by-products of cellular metabolism. In nemertean protonephridia, flame...