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filter feeder

any MICROPHAGOUS marine or freshwater animal that creates currents, usually by ciliary action, so that food particles are carried either into the body cavity, as is the case in, for example, the sea-squirt, or across the gills where the particles are trapped in MUCUS which is carried, again by ciliary action, into the entrance to the gut system. The freshwater clam, Anodonta, is an example of the latter type of filter feeder.
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Older ctenochasmids did not possess such an obvious sieving basket, but some had elongated snouts with many slender teeth, also interpreted as adaptations for filter feeding. These pterosaurs were around at the time the droppings were made, and as the footprints from the site have also been attributed to ctenochasmids it is likely that such pterosaurs produced both the droppings and the footprints.
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY: Filter-feeding pterosaurs were the flamingoes of the Late Jurassic
(2013) described that mouth position and structure are closely related to feeding behaviour, especially for suction and filter feeding. Houlihan et al.
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(http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30455-X) Their paper , titled "Gigantism precedes filter feeding in baleen whale evolution," appeared online Thursday in the journal Current Biology.
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These organisms thrive in shallow, sunlit waters of coral reefs and derive their nutrition by filter feeding, as well as via transfer of photosynthetic products from their symbiont, the zooxanthellae Symbiodinium sp.
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Haupt, "A simple device to control concentrations of food algae in feeding experiments with filter feeding organisms," in Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven, vol.
Fluorometer controlled apparatus designed for long-duration algal-feeding experiments and environmental effect studies with mussels

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