On the Habits ofTurritella CommunisRisso
- 1 July 1946
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 26 (3) , 377-380
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400012194
Abstract
Tumtella communisis a highly specialized burrower in gravelly mud. Once buried, it moves little in correlation with its apparently exclusively ciliary feeding habit. An inhalant depression in the mud is made by lateral movements of the foot. There is a unique exhalant siphon constituted by two overlapping folds, and through this water and faecal pellets are expelled without disturbing the surrounding mud.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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