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TUBE AMBULACRAIRE [1 record]

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Record 1 1991-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marine Biology
  • Animal Biology
DEF

One of numerous small tentacular flexible tubular processes of starfishes, sea urchins, and most holothurians bearing at the end an adhesive sucker, being extensions of the water-vascular system, employed in crawling or in holding on to objects, and serving also in respiration and as tactile organs.

OBS

... hollow, thin-walled cylinders ...(ending) in rounded-off ends ... and joined to extensions of the radial canals...

Key term(s)
  • podium

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie marine
  • Biologie animale
DEF

[...] petit diverticule [...] émis par les canaux périphériques [...] et qui traverse le test par des pores [...]

Key term(s)
  • ambulacre
  • podium

Spanish

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