Sentence examples for oral sucker from inspiring English sources
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.
b Disruption of Oral sucker (Os).
c Degenerative changes of Oral sucker (Os).
All enzymes gave a positive reaction in the oral sucker.
GCE gynaecophoral canal edge, OS oral sucker, VS ventral sucker.
In oxyclozanide treated flukes, there were retracted changes towards Oral sucker, Acetabulum, Papillae around Oral sucker showing blebs, erosion of tegument result of ruptured blebs (Fig. 7).
For males and females, we measured relative oral and ventral sucker surface areas (sucker surface area divided by the total surface area of the body).
Just be glad the little suckers are aquatic...the oral "bristles" that give them their name look kind of stabby to me.
Most tadpoles have a small fleshy sucker mouth, known as an oral disc, that they use to hoover up algae and other organic matter from surfaces of submerged rocks, and the cup-shaped belly sucker is only present in tadpoles.
Only monogamous males displayed expanded relative sucker surface areas (1.83% and 3.28% of body surface area for the oral and ventral suckers, respectively).
