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Tentacle. Cuttlefish with two tentacles and eight arms. In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats.
When used in a zoological context, the term tentacle refers to a slender, elongated, flexible organ that grows near the mouth of an animal. Tentacles are most common in invertebrates, although they are present in some vertebrates as well. Tentacles serve a variety of functions and can help the animal to move, feed, grasp objects, and gather ...
Squids may be swift swimmers or part of the drifting sea life ( plankton ). Squids have elongated tubular bodies and short compact heads. Two of the 10 arms have developed into long slender tentacles with expanded ends and four rows of suckers with toothed, horny rings. The body of most squids is strengthened by a feathery-shaped internal shell ...
tentacle: [noun] any of various elongate flexible usually tactile or prehensile processes borne by animals and especially invertebrates chiefly on the head or about the mouth.
Meanwhile, like squid, cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles, which they rapidly deploy to catch fast-moving prey like shrimp and fish, according to a 1984 study published in the journal ...
Tentacles: Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. With John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda. A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community.
form and function in. The tentacles, probably used during feeding, vary in number according to body size. The tentacles are long processes containing blood vessels and are continuous with the body cavity, or coelom. Rows of very thin single-celled units called pinnules are found on the tentacles. The pinnules, which….
