macrophagous


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macrophagous

(of animals) feeding on food particles that are large relative to the size of animal.
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Three principal feeding patterns have been described for nemerteans, namely suctorial feeding, macrophagous feeding, and suspension feeding (McDermott and Roe, 1985).
In general, Procephalothrix simulus consumed entire prey organisms rather than taking fluids and tissues from inside the prey, thus showing a typical macrophagous feeding strategy.
Nemerteans that use the macrophagous feeding strategy have been known either to catch their active living prey with their proboscis, killing or at least partially immobilizing it with the proboscis secretions before ingestion, or to feed directly on inactive or decaying food material without prior use of the proboscis (Gibson, 1994).
For other macrophagous nemerteans, Jennings and Gibson (1969) reported that the ingestion process of L.
Laboratory observations on the feeding behavior and feeding rate of the nemertean Procephalothrix simulus
Understanding the gastric mill structure of a macrophagous shrimp Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius).
Development and functional morphology of the foreguts of larvae and postlarvae of three crustacean decapods/Desenvolvimento e morfologia funcional dos estomagos de larvas e pos-larvas de tres crustaceos decapodes
The lower photo shows a starfish, a member of a group of macrophagous carnivores that often eat prey about as big as themselves.
3 Life on the ocean bottom
Average capsule length of the tentacle spirocysts increased continuously and significantly with increasing polyp size in all three macrophagous anemone species (Figs.
senile, the length of tentacle cnidae increases more slowly with body size (scaling exponents, 0.008-0.03, Kramer and Francis, 2004) than for macrophagous Anthopleura and Tealia species (scaling exponents, 0.052-0.086, this study).
Microscaling: why larger anemones have longer cnidae
For macrophagous feeding, Artemia salina nauplii were covalently labeled with the dyes Texas red sulfonyl chloride and fluorescein isothiocyanate, or non-covalently labeled with Evans blue (7).
Localization of digestion activities in the sea anemone Haliplanella luciae
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