dissolved oxygen from water and to excrete carbon dioxide. Branchia (pl.: branchiae, from Ancient Greek βράγχια) is the zoologists' academic name for gills...

of marine polychaete tube worms characterized by protruding feathery branchiae. Sabellids build tubes out of a tough, parchment-like exudate, strengthened...

(sing. papula; also occasionally papulla, papullae), also known as dermal branchiae or skin gills, are projections of the coelom of Asteroidea that serve...

Look up Gill, branchiae, gill, gilled, or gills in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gill is an aquatic respiratory organ. Gill or Gills may also refer...

This species can grow to be up to 6 in (150 mm) long. It has tufted branchiae, used for respiration, starting on the second segment of its body and...

swimming acrocirrids by their transparent bodies, and single medial subulate branchiae. Acrocirridae is closely related to the Flabelligeridae. While species...

The larva with eight series of groups of fleshy filaments, serving as branchiae; whitish-ochreous or pale greenish, slightly purplish freckled; dorsal...

cirri and all have unbranched parapodia. In some species, dorsal cirri, branchiae, ventral cirri and chaetae occur, but not in others.[verification needed]...

often lacks any respiratory pigment. Gaseous exchange occurs via dermal branchiae or papulae in starfish, genital bursae in brittle stars, peristomial gills...

succeeding segments with a cirrus on each side. Body nearly as broad as long. Branchiae placed on each segment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped...

function or act as limbs and the neurosetae are rostrate hooks. There are branchiae present on some of the setigers in the middle or posterior regions. Apart...

Dorsal tentacles short and club-shaped, laminated, the suture anterior. Branchiae small, consisting of seven small and simple leaflets arranged in a circle...

longitudinal bands. African arowanas have air-breathing organs on its branchiae, enabling them to survive in oxygen-depleted water. A suprabranchial organ...

shading off into the ground colour, tubercles whitish, cervical tentacles, branchiae, and under surface cream white. Length 2 inches. Pease, W. H. (1866) Remarks...

guelras < Proto-Germanic gelunaz In zoology, Port. also uses brânquias (branchiae). goose oca < Lat. auca ganso < Gothic/Suebian gans Spanish also has ganso...

and followed by the exemplar virus of the species: Tipravirus Okavirus branchiae, Gill-associated virus Okavirus flavicapitis, Yellow head virus Okavirus...

appendages. Four pairs of appendages are sensory and breathing organs (branchiae) at least 68 mm (2.7 in) in length. They are arranged along the upper...

decapods and some other crustaceans is the area of the body containing the branchiae, or gills. In shrimp-like decapods, water enters the chamber from the...

prostomium with a mouth, peristomial cirri, and the characteristic spiraled branchiae that set the genus Diopatra apart from other sedentary polychaetes. Additionally...

Nectoneanthes, and Nereis. Most nereidids perform oxygen exchange in branchiae; however, Pectinereis strickrotti possesses more elaborate gills. Furthermore...

differs in jaw morphology, the form of its parapodia and the absence of branchiae. Its body shape is elongated, with a uniform width for the majority of...

shores, it may be hidden in a crevice and difficult to dislodge. The branchiae (feeding appendages) in the feathery crown also function as gills. They...

("microspines"). Its "head" bears a pair of tentaculate, horseshoe-shaped branchiae ("gills"), and can be withdrawn into the body; it is surrounded by a cage...

to assist respiration. Upon one side of this cavity are two pectinated branchiae, one large, and the other small. On the opposite side are situated, in...

setae hooks. The central region is covered in red or black branching branchiae. The final section is the least developed. Arenicola cristata is found...

of the mantle is studded with numerous slightly elevated orange dots. Branchiae colourless, tentacles chocolate brown, laminae white. Under surface colourless...

whitish. The dorsal tentacles appear pale with dusky lamellae, and the branchiae are a dusky ash color. Finally, the disk of the foot is whitish, accented...

On page 443 he states: " One or two stout dorsal spines caudad of the branchiae on each side; number of somites large, near seventy or more...Melinninae"...

series of appendages along the anterior edges of the gill arches. gills, branchiae Organs for breathing the oxygen contained in water, and for excreting...

cluster of tentacles, grooved for deposit-feeding, but the majority, the branchiae, are found one pair per segment, and do not have grooves. The chaetae...

a single medial subulate branchia, and four pair of small segmental branchiae modified as elliptical, bioluminescent sacs. The genus name, Swima, is...

back in a rounded lobe; the posterior end bending inwards behind the branchiae: the cloak is densely freckled like the rest of the body, having an irregular...

mantle, diaphanous upon its sides, through which is distinctly seen the branchiae and the abdominal mass. The edges are swollen, lobed, and united in almost...

often referred to as "gills".[citation needed] The radioles (or sometimes branchiae; Ancient Greek for gills) forms the crown, which consists of two radiole...

median stripe are several cream colored spots, with central purple dots. Branchiae colorless. Tentacles brown. The under surface of the mantle is same color...

tentacula are rather shorter than the dorsal ones and of the same colour. The branchiae are somewhat clavate, long, with obtuse terminations, very pale fawn-coloured...

known Balanomorpha, Catomerus has both ovigerous frenae and ovigerous branchiae. This is a plesiomorphic condition, as ovigerous frenae are a characteristic...

present along the margin of the sides of the body, the oral veil, tips of branchiae and clavus of the rhinophores. At the peduncle, the rhinophores are translucent...

Branchellion ravenelii appears similar to B. torpedinis, though the number of branchiae pairs differs between the two, with B. ravenelii having 31 pairs, whereas...

the top: oral tentacles about one-third shorter and of the same colour. Branchiae generally in a single series of five or six on each side, but in fine...

yellow, the fascicules of filaments slender, and the sheaths rather tight. Branchiae rather slender, bipinnate, transparent, with an opake white line in the...

Fionoidea. The animal bears four simple tentacles and numerous papillose branchiae. The vent is situated latero-dorsally. The mouth is equipped with jaws...

toward the tip, and wrinkled, with a pale fawn or buff coloration. The branchiae are numerous, slender, and nearly linear, and they are arranged in about...

expanded a good deal at the sides anteriorly, meeting in a point behind the branchiae, and thence forming a slight crest to the tail. Dorsal tentacles fusiform...

feeding organs that contain a lot of extracellular material, or polychaete branchiae, which are respiratory organs composed largely of non-cellular cuticle...

is pretty stout. Its cavity is large, entirely open, provided with two branchiae placed on the left side, the larger of which forms a large semicircle...

fringed oral veil, on the tip of the posterior portion of the foot, tips of branchiae, clavus of the rhinophores, dorsal tubercles and oral veil appendages...

the lower edge. The rhinophores dark brown with white tips. Each of the branchiae bore two black bands. Most of the specimens identified as G. tennentanus...

the mouth area, there are 20 tentacles that used for feeding and eight branchiae (finger-like protrusions). Its native range is along the eastern coast...

along the margin of the fringed oral veil on the tip of the tail, tips of branchiae, clavus of the rhinophores, dorsal tubercles and oral veil appendages...

pouches is evident. The dorsal fin originates immediately behind the branchiae and continues to the caudal extremity, resembling a modern ammocoete or...

pdf Curra, R. A. (1965). "Notes on the morphology of the branchiae of the crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet)". Zool. Anz.:...

two bundles (one right and one left) of featherlike 'gills', known as branchiae or radioles. Each of these bundles consists of a single row of radioles...

right to left. The rectum and uterus are attached to each other along the branchiae, and terminate in an ear-shaped gutter, produced by the margin of the...