actinopharynx

English

Etymology

actino- +‎ pharynx

Noun

actinopharynx (plural actinopharynxes or actinopharynges)

  1. A tube which leads from the mouth to the coelenteron in sea anemones
    • 2015 October 15, “Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0139068:
      Morphological synapomorphies that support anthozoan monophyly include the actinopharynx, which is an ectodermally-lined tube that extends from the mouth into the gastric cavity, the siphonoglyph, which is a ciliated groove in the actinopharynx, and the mesenteries, which are sheets of gastrodermal tissue that extend from the body wall into the coelenteron and have musculature of gastrodermal origin [18 ,22 ,23 ].
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