gape-and-suck feeding

gape-and-suck feeding
the feeding mechanism of most fishes by means of a negative pressure in the mouth and sucking in the food item. Enabled through rapid expansion of the oral and opercular cavities

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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