Journal of Oceanography and Marine Research
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Michael Iannicelli

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• Research Article
  Explaining the Crude and Simple Mechanics of Parasitic Feeding by Conodonts
  Author(s): Michael Iannicelli Michael Iannicelli
  
  The purpose of the study is to provide novel details about how the ubiquitous, jawless, parasitic, conodont-animal: created tiny conduits within their host-victim’s epidermis in order to withdraw its body fluids; and then granulized any fragments broken down from the epidermis. It is determined here that the driving-force was solely due to the frantic, fluttering movements of the host-victim while trying to free itself from the parasitic attachment of the condont(s). This induced an oscillating, back and forth movement of the epidermis towards stationary, S-element denticles which resulted in a poking and/or scraping action until shearing of the epidermis was achieved. Analogous to that, would be thorns on a wooden stem because accidental movement by animals into stationary, sharp thorns result in penetration and cutting of an epidermis. That analogy is supported by the simple f.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2572-3103.1000177

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