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captaculum
A filamentous tactile organ with an adhesive, sucker-like end near mouth of a tusk shell (mollusks in the class Scaphopoda).The captacula are used to gather small particles of food in the sand and pass them to the mouth.
- Kalbos dalis: noun
- Pramonės šaka / sritis: Natural environment
- Category: Coral reefs
- Organization: NOAA
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