More importantly, it preserves an unusual combination of features including a thoracic sucker with six radial ridges, unique in insects, piercing-sucking mouthparts for fluid feeding, and crocheted ventral prolegs with upward directed bristles for anchoring and movement while submerged.
In highly modified stream tadpoles, the mouth is ventral and modified as an oral sucker, with which the tadpole anchors itself to stones in the stream.
Because of the plainness of my own style, I am a sucker for sentences with any sort of zingy rhetorical flourish.
(She comes roughly every eight weeks). I'm a sucker for anything with New Age trappings, which always remind me of my childhood in California.
I am a sucker for Mediterraneans with arches and high ceilings, and my long-suffering husband always looks longingly at one-story California ranches.
Several seasons ago, in a game in Toronto, Domi sent Ulf Samuelsson of the Rangers to the hospital with a concussion with a sucker punch from behind, also in the dying minutes of a game.
In his bedroom, he has two fish tanks, one with a turtle, the other with a sucker fish he bought at Walmart.
"There's always a chance of a sucker sprout," he explained, with an edge of hope that clashed vividly with the funereal demeanor of the visitors around him in this Chesapeake Bay backwater.
The CW The Flash, 8P.M., Oct. 7th Yes, I love DC Comics and I'm a sucker for CW pretty-people-with-superpowers shows.
