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tube feet -- Extensions of the water-vascular system of echinoderms, protruding from the body and often ending in suckers. May be used for locomotion and/or for maintaining a tight grip on prey or on the bottom.
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tube feet (podia) .Numerous small, muscular, fluid-filled tubes projecting from body of echinoderms; part of water-vascular system; used in locomotion, clinging, food handling, and respiration.
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tube feet
The locomotory organs of Echinoderms, which are protruded from the body by, and are retracted by, fluid pressure from the water vascular system.
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It positions itself over a bivalve and attaches tube feet to each side of the shell. By working tube feet in an alternating fashion, it opens the shell open. Only a small crack is needed to insert its cardiac stomach into the prey.
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region in echinoderm animals in which are located the ambulacral tube feet for locomotion
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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A network of hydraulic canals unique to echinoderms that branches into extensions called tube feet, which function in locomotion, feeding, and gas exchange.
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Tentacle-tube-foot suspension feeder. Suspension feeder that traps particles on distinct tentacles or tube feet (in echinoderms) ...
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Seawater is taken into a system of canals and is used to extend the many tube feet. These have suckers on their tips and aid the animal in attaching itself to solid surfaces.
About 6,000 species — all of them marine.
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