Traits:FeedingApparatus

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Feeding apparatus

Feeding apparatus: Description of the apparatus (mechanism) used to collect/capture food

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Has Values:

• Feeding apparatus
  • Aristotle's lantern
  • Arms or appendages
    • Grasping claws
    • Grasping paws, hands, feet
      • Clawed
      • Talons
    • Papillae or tube feet
    • Setose (Hairy)
    • Suctorial (sucker bearing)
  • Captacula
  • Cephalic spines
  • Choanocytes
  • Eversible pharynx
    • Buccal organ absent or occluded
    • Muscular axial proboscis
    • Simple axial proboscis
    • Ventral buccal organ
    • Ventral muscular proboscis
  • Gills
    • Ctenidia
    • Filter basket
    • Gill rakers
  • Inhalent siphon
  • Introvert
  • Lophophore
  • Mouth parts
    • Beak
    • Biting or macerating
    • Piercing or suctorial
  • Mucus mesh or net
  • Phagocytosis
  • Radulae
    • Piercing
    • Rasping
  • Tentacles
    • Accessory feeding structures
    • Grasping
    • Oral podia
    • Palps
    • Pinnate or branching
    • Sticky or mucus covered
    • Stinging

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