• The radula (US: /ˈrædʒʊlə/; pl.: radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue. It is a...
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    Tympanotonos fuscatus Tympanotonos fuscatus var. radula Conservation status Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum:...
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  • Helianthus radula is a North American species of sunflower known by the common name rayless sunflower or pineland sunflower. It is native to the southeastern...
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  • Radula perrottetii is a species of plant in genus Radula, a genus of liverworts. It is endemic in Japan. It contains the small molecule perrottetinene...
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  • Radula marginata, or Wairuakohu, is a species of plant in the genus Radula, a genus of liverworts. It is endemic to New Zealand. It has been found to contain...
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    tooth-like structures located on a banded ribbon-like tongue called a radula. The radula works like a file, ripping food into small pieces. Many snails are...
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    significant cavity used for breathing and excretion, the presence of a radula (except for bivalves), and the structure of the nervous system. Other than...
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    herbivores, scavengers, filter feeders, and even parasites. In particular, the radula is often highly adapted to the specific diet of the various group of gastropods...
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    Jack Radula cavifolia Hampe Radula complanata (L.) Dumort. Radula deflexilobula Promma, L.N.Zhang et R.L.Zhu Radula demissa M.A.M.Renner, 2013 Radula javanica...
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  • Radula allamanoi Gola Radula allisonii Castle Radula amentulosa Mitt. Radula amoena Herzog Radula anceps Sande Lac. Radula andicola Stephani Radula aneurismalis...
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  • Radula visianica is a species of liverwort in the family Radulaceae. It is endemic to the European Alps. It was thought to be extinct since 1938 but was...
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  • Radula jonesii is a species of liverwort in the family Radulaceae. It is known from a few locations on Madeira and one location on Tenerife. The populations...
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    Radula demissa is a species of liverwort in the family Radulaceae. It occurs in southeastern Australia and New Zealand, where it grows as an epiphyte in...
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    Eurybia radula, commonly known as the low rough aster or rough wood aster, is an herbaceous perennial in the family Asteraceae. It is native to eastern...
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    snails are venomous and capable of stinging. Cone snails use a modified radula tooth and a venom gland to attack and paralyze their prey before engulfing...
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    Melaleuca radula, commonly known as graceful honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia...
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    The rough ray (Raja radula) is a Mediterranean ray species of the Rajidae family described by Delaroche in 1809. The rough ray is named for the spinules...
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    Gigartina californica J. Agardh, 1899 Gigartina exasperata Harvey & Bailey 1851 Gigartina radula f. exasperata (Harvey & Bailey) Setchell & N.L.Gardner 1903...
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    Silphium radula, commonly known as roughstem rosinweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native North America, where it...
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  • Nettorhamphos radula, the duckbilled clingfish, is a species of clingfish (family Gobiesocidae) from the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. It is currently...
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  • shield is a part of the radula in many kinds of molluscs. It serves as an attachment point for the muscles that retract the radula, and is thus located on...
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  • Raphitoma radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. The length of the shell varies between 12 mm and 19...
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    oesophagus. The radula is unique to molluscs, and is found in every class of mollusc apart from bivalves. Within the gastropods, the radula is used in feeding...
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    and the visceral ganglia. There are sometimes also buccal ganglia. The radula of a gastropod is usually adapted to the food that a species eats. The simplest...
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    Daphnella radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae. The length of the shell attains 13.5 mm, its diameter...
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    Salvia radula (African white sage) is a herbaceous perennial native to the northern provinces of South Africa, growing at elevations from 1,300 to 1,900 m...
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    Neritopsis radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Neritopsidae. Indo-Pacific: Aldabra Madagascar Mascarene Basin Mauritius...
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    Inquisitor radula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae. It is closely related to Vexitomina metcalfei...
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    animal's odontophore, the muscular cushion used to support the limpet's radula (a kind of tongue) that scrapes algae off the surrounding rock for nutrition...
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    Solidago radula, the western rough goldenrod, is a North American plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is found primarily in the southern Great Plains...
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