lophophore

Once the eggs are laid the animal grows a new lophophore.

The colour varies but is usually orangish-brown with a red, orange or green lophophore.

The lophophore is supported in several different ways.

The gut is U-shaped with the anterior mouth at the center of the lophophore.

The lophophore is protruded by action of muscles pulling on frontal wall.

They feed using a lophophore, a ciliated structure that surrounds the mouth.

The lophophore surrounds the mouth and is an upstream collecting system for suspension feeding.

The lophophore support is loop shaped in contrast to the spiralia of similar looking spiriferids.

Brachiopods were filter feeders, using a Lophophore to create a current to trap food particles.

(recalling the lophophore of several phyla) come to mind as other possible features from the mega-grabbag.

They are characterized by a lophophore which is protruded by the action of annular muscles.

Instead zooids absorb oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide through the body wall and especially the lophophore.

When not feeding, the lophophore retracts into the polypide through the tentacular sheath.

They feed with their lophophore.

The brachidia, which hold the lophophore, the ciliated feeding arms, are looped, as in the Orthida.

The lophophore, a ring of ciliated tentacles, protrudes from the polypide to feed.

All bryozoa have a lophophore.

The particles are harvested by a lophophore covered in cilia - which serves the dual purpose of both creating a current and catching the food.

The genus is characterised by the epidermis folding under itself at the collar beneath the lophophore (feeding organ).

The classification in suborders is based upon frontal calcification and the mechanism of lophophore protrusion.

Each zooid is roughly rectangular, with 4-5 short spines at the distal end and 13-14 tentacles around the lophophore.

Cauloramphus disjunctus is a filter feeder, extending its lophophore to catch phytoplankton.

Like in other gymnolaematans, their lophophore is protruded by muscles that pull on the frontal wall of the zooid.