They are located on the posterior side. The incurrent takes water in, the excurrent puts it out. do u know mrs sheetz??? this is an x-act question from her lab
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What is the purpose of a clam incurrent siphon? What is the function of a clam's incurrent siphon? Incurrent excurrent siphons what is their function? What is the function of the incurrent siphon ina clam? What is the function of the incurrent siphon of the clam?
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B. Where do the siphons end inside the clam? Locate the following parts of your clam according to the diagram: adductor muscles gills mantle excurrent siphon incurrent siphon stomach mouth foot intestine Lift the gills to find the stomach and intestines.
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www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/pdf/Invertebrates/Inverts_C...
www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/pdf/Invertebrates/Inverts_Clam_Dis.pdf
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opposite the end where the siphons are located (photo). Often most easily identified by the posterior location of the ... Excurrent siphon: In bivalves, the mantle fold or siphon through which water is pumped back out of the shell after passing across the gills. The excurrent siphon is dorsal to the incurrent siphon.
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www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosari...
www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/biology/rosario/inverts/Glossary/Glossary.html
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The mantle of the two sides comes together at the posterior end of the clam to form the incurrent and excurrent siphons. Clams filter water for feeding and breathing. The leaf-like gills are just internal to the mantle on both sides of the body.
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faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/jwahlert/bio1003/mollusca.html
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The incurrent and excurrent siphons are at opposite ends of the body and if one looks carefully, one can see a series of from 4 to 9 transverse muscle bands which run around the body.
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www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artnov98/rhtunic.html
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Using the figure to the right, locate the incurrent and excurrent siphons. Water enters the incurrent siphon and passes into the pharynx. The water passes out of the pharynx through numerous gill slits into a cavity called the atrium.
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bio.rutgers.edu/~gb102/lab_3/402bm-urochord.html
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Tunicate, also known as urochordata, tunicata (and by the common names of urochordates, sea squirts, and sea pork[1]) is a subphylum of a group of underwater saclike filter feeders with incurrent and excurrent siphons, that are members of the phylum Chordata. ... Tunicates lack the kidney-like metanephridial organs,
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www.flickr.com/photos/divemasterking2000/176251012/
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Offers diagrams and basic information for clam, oyster, and scallop anatomy. ... The clam's foot is used to dig down into the sand, and a pair of long siphons that extrude from the clams's mantle out the side of the shell reach up to the water above (only the exit points for the siphons are shown).
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www.assateague.com/nt-bival.html
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