These form the class Gephyrea, and consist of creatures with sac-like or cylindrical and elongated bodies, and a protrusible proboscis, which is often of great length.
They catch their prey by lying in wait until an insect comes close enough to be reached by the extraordinarily developedprotrusible grasping lower lip (fig.
The tongue, which is protrusible and usually red or blue-black, serves as a special organ of touch.
The male is also furnished with a long and protrusible penis, and the female with an equally long and protrusible ovipositor.
Each testis communicates by means of an efferent duct with a common collecting duct of its side of the body, which opens on to the exterior by means of a protrusible penis, and to which is sometimes appended a seminal vesicle.
A protrusible proboscis exists, but there are no jaws.
The male ducts are either one pair or two pairs, which open by a common and complicated efferent terminal apparatus furnished with a protrusible penis.
There is no armed protrusible pharynx, such as exists in some other Chaetopods.
Alimentary canal sometimes with protrusible proboscis; never with gizzard or oesophageal glands; intestine with caeca as a rule.
These worms are without a protrusible pharynx and without jaws.
The worms are short and have a large protrusible pharynx armed with a double pair of horny jaws.
The mouth is anterior and slightly ventral; it leads into a protrusible pharynx armed with recurved teeth that can be everted.
Lankester as a branch of the Cephalopoda, chiefly on account of the protrusible sucker-bearing processes at the anterior end of Pneumonoderma.
The protrusible tongue, ending in a sticky club, can be shot out for about seven inches in the common chameleon.
At the upper pole is formed the protrusible pharynx (cf.
The protrusible pharynx is stated by Hallez to arise as an hypoblastic bud, while its sheath has an epiblastic origin.
The mouth is placed on the ventral side of a protrusibleoral lobe.
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