- tube
worms employ radioles primarily for alimentation.
While their primary role is to
function as an
organ for
filter feeding,
radioles also
serve as respiratory...
- two fans of 8–45
feathery radioles arising from fleshy, semi-circular lobes. The body is
mostly grey-green
while the
radioles are brown, red or purple...
-
mouth appendages. Each
spiral is
composed of feather-like
tentacles called radioles,
which are
heavily ciliated and
cause any prey
trapped in them to be transported...
- hard substrates. They are
filter feeders,
extending a plume-like fan of
radioles from the end of the tube in
order to
catch plankton and
detritus floating...
-
crown of
feeding appendages or
radioles in two fan-shaped
clusters projecting from
their tubes when
under water. Each
radiole has
paired side
branches making...
-
latter is bigger, more
uniformly black, has less
discernible secondary radioles and is
recognizable in five
characteristic white points at the top of its...
- the mouth, the
sensory organs and a
crown of
radioles (feather-like tentacles).
There are 18 to 28
radioles arranged in two
semicircular whorls. This worm...
- 40 feather-like
radioles projecting from the
second segment, or peristomium,
which also
houses the two eyes and the mouth. The
radioles are
bipinnate and...
-
radioles,
which are
generally longer (especially on the
aboral side) and more
clearly triangular in H. trigonarius,
which never has
bifacial radioles...
- The
operculum is
usually red and the
radioles are red, pink or
orange and
usually banded with white. The
radioles are
attached to the peristomium, which...
