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Monday, 27 October 2014

Oral Siphon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascidiacea

Sea squirts feed by taking in water through the oral siphon. The water enters the mouth and pharynx, flows through mucus-covered gill slits (also called pharyngeal stigmata) into a water chamber called the atrium, then exits through the atrial siphon.

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