tentacle
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A tentacle is a long, flexible appendage found on certain sea creatures like cuttlefish, used for grasping and manipulating objects in their environment. Tentacles are distinct from arms and are important to understanding how different marine animals interact with their surroundings and capture food.
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- Invertebrates
- Molluscs
- Cnidarians
- Ctenophores
- Bryozoa
- Trypanorhynch cestodes
- Vertebrates
- Amphibians
- Mammals
- Tentillum
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In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, and elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates. In animal anatomy, tentacles usually occur in one or more pairs. Anatomically, the tentacles of animals work mainly like muscular hydrostats. Most forms of tentacles are used for grasping and feeding. Many are sensory organs, variously receptive to touch, vision, or to the smell or taste of particular foods or threats. Examples of such tentacles are the eyestalks of various kinds of snails. Some kinds of tentacles have both sensory and manipulatory functions.