Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet STARFISHES

Definition av STARFISHES

1. böjningsform av starfish

Exempel på hur man kan använda STARFISHES i en mening

• Many species of polychaete worms, amphipods, and brittle stars inhabit the benthic surface and can also be accompanied by some secondary consumers such as flounders, shrimp, crabs, and starfishes.
• Anarhichadidae wolffishes use their large teeth to feed on a diet of shelled invertebrates such as crabs, starfishes and sea urchins, as well as other prey, The peak mating season for wolffish is September to October.
• His work there, on echinoderm pedicellariae, established his reputation as a leading authority on echinoderms, and in 1881 he was invited to o and write up an account of the starfishes collected during the Challenger expedition.
• For this purpose, the starfishes have Tiedemann pouches at the bases of the digestive glands; these create water currents by use of flagellae.
• It is avoided by the predatory starfishes Odontaster validus, Perknaster fuscus and Acodontaster conspicuus because the mucus it extrudes is distasteful; it is preyed on by the sea anemone Isotealia antarctica, but 70% of the encounters between the two result in the nudibranch escaping, or the sea anemone swallowing the nudibranch but then regurgitating it from its gastrovascular cavity.

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