The radiating tentacles of peacock worms filter water for food using fine fringed filaments.

“A feeding peacock worm…has a fan of radiating tentacles fringed with fine filaments to sieve food particles from the water currents.” (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:25)

Foy S, Oxford Scientific Films. The Grand Design: Form and Colour in Animals. Lingfield, Surrey, U.K.: BLA Publishing Limited for J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London; 1982. 238 p.

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