Small tentacle-like structure surrounding the mouth; they act as sensory devices and as a filter for the water passing into the body. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancelet#Physical_features ]
Synonyms: buccal cirrus oral cirri buccal cirri oral cilia buccal tentacle oral tentacle buccal cilia
Term information
this class groups a chordate (branchiostome) and lophotrochozoan (brachiopod) structure; these should probably be split
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7737
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_7568
Term relations
- organ
- adjacent to some mouth
- in taxon some Bilateria
- in taxon some (not Gnathostomata
)