velar tentacles
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velum — 1) a membrane, veil, covering, curtain 2) a vertical membrane surrounding the mouth from which the velar tentacles erupt in Amphioxi 3) the membrane guarding the opening of the blind pharynx in Petromyzontiformes from which spring the velar… … Dictionary of ichthyology
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