cavity as a mucus-bound mass. These mucus-bound masses are the pseudofeces. Pseudofeces accumulate with, and look much like, the actual feces in the bottom...
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veligers. Any undesirable particulate matter is bound with mucus, known as pseudofeces, and ejected out the incurrent siphon. The particle-free water is then...
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siphon and reaches the mouth after passing over the gill. Please also see pseudofeces. The hyponome or siphon is the organ used by cephalopods to expel water...
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to the mouth, where they are eaten, digested and expelled as feces or pseudofeces. Each oyster filters up to five litres of water per hour. Scientists...
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the mouth, where they are eaten, digested, and expelled as feces or pseudofeces that fall to the bottom and remain out of the water column. Oysters feed...
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combined with mucus and other matter and deposited on lake floors as pseudofeces. Since the zebra mussel has become established in Lake Erie, water clarity...
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processes. Grazing on pelagic organic matter and biodeposition of feces and pseudofeces by suspension-feeding fauna increases organic matter sedimentation rates...
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deep sediments and egests them on the sediment surface in the form of pseudofeces. The activities of this worm can alter sediment stratification, increase...
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particles in the water, interrupt reproduction, and foul the water with pseudofeces. Zebra mussels are established in the Great Lakes and Ohio River drainages...
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(mollusc) circulatory system of gastropods excretory system of gastropods pseudofeces reproductive system of gastropods apophallation Love dart number of other...
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