Meaning of actinopharynx | Babel Free

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A tube which leads from the mouth to the coelenteron in sea anemones

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“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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