cavity as a mucus-bound mass. These mucus-bound masses are the pseudofeces. Pseudofeces accumulate with, and look much like, the actual feces in the bottom...

veligers. Any undesirable particulate matter is bound with mucus, known as pseudofeces, and ejected out the incurrent siphon. The particle-free water is then...

siphon and reaches the mouth after passing over the gill. Please also see pseudofeces. The hyponome or siphon is the organ used by cephalopods to expel water...

to the mouth, where they are eaten, digested and expelled as feces or pseudofeces. Each oyster filters up to five litres of water per hour. Scientists...

the mouth, where they are eaten, digested, and expelled as feces or pseudofeces that fall to the bottom and remain out of the water column. Oysters feed...

combined with mucus and other matter and deposited on lake floors as pseudofeces. Since the zebra mussel has become established in Lake Erie, water clarity...

processes. Grazing on pelagic organic matter and biodeposition of feces and pseudofeces by suspension-feeding fauna increases organic matter sedimentation rates...

deep sediments and egests them on the sediment surface in the form of pseudofeces. The activities of this worm can alter sediment stratification, increase...

the gut, and the undigested remains egested as feces, or discarded as pseudofeces, is expelled through the exhalant siphon. These water currents are also...

silt and other unwanted water-borne particules by expelling these as pseudofeces. Commensal symbionts such as crustaceans and a cardinal fish, Astrapogon...