- in length. It has a pair of long
tentacles that are used to
catch prey and can be
retracted into
sheaths. The
tentacles are up to
twenty times the length...
-
zooids incubating non-feeding
pseudocyphonautes larva in the
modified tentacle sheath.
Flustrellidra hispida is an
amphiboreal species,
widely distributed...
-
organs and
tissues of each
individual zooid. This
includes the
tentacles,
tentacle sheath, U-shaped
digestive tract,
musculature and
nerve cells. It is...
- feathery,
contractile tentacles,
which can be
retracted into
specialised ciliated sheaths. In some species, the
primary tentacles are
reduced and they...
-
juveniles have
large mouths and, like the adults, lack both
tentacles and
tentacle sheaths. In some groups, such as the flat, bottom-dwelling platyctenids...
-
adhesive substance which ensnares the prey.
These tentacles can be
retracted into a
tentacle sheath. The body is on the
whole light pink in colour, oval...
-
miniature adults, with lophop****s (a
feeding organ consisting of an
array of
tentacles) that
enable the
larvae to feed and swim for
months until the animals...
- structure, a
fleshy sheath that
contains the
second structure: an
extendable cirrus (plural: cirri). The
sheaths of the
digital tentacles are
fused at their...
- two-thirds of the way
towards the mouth.
Tentacle sheaths are
closely pressed to the stomodeum. The
elongated tentacles possess two
varieties of
slightly yellowish...
- each of the animal's
tentacles is
composed of a thin
flexible cirrus and the
corresponding hardened and
protective cirrus sheath into
which the cirri...
