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On the Habits of Turritella Communis Risso

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. M. Yonge
C. M. Yonge
Affiliation:
From the Marine Biological Station, Millport, and the Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow
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Tumtella communis is 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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , July 1946 , pp. 377 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1946

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