trophi

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noun In cntom., those mouth-parts which are employed in taking food and preparing it for swallowing.
noun The teeth of the mastax or pharynx of rotifers; the calcareous mastacial armature of wheel-animalcules.

noun plural (Zoöl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillæ, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.

noun The mouthparts of an organism such as an insect or a member of the Rotifera

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The food particles a bdelloid ingests pass thru its jaws, called the trophi and which happen to be the only hard parts in their bodies.

A bdelloid from Colorado AYDIN 2007
Nearly all rotifers have chitinous jaws called trophi that grind and shred food.

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The trophi are the only part of a rotifer that can be fossilized and have been found in amber dating back to the Eocene epoch (38-55 million years ago).

unknown title 2009
Nearly all rotifers have chitinous jaws called trophi that grind and shred food.

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The trophi are the only part of a rotifer that can be fossilized and have been found in amber dating back to the Eocene epoch (38-55 million years ago).

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The picture below shows the trophi of this unidentified species of bdelloid.

A bdelloid from Colorado AYDIN 2007
That's surprising -- the trophi can be preserved, though, right?

A bdelloid from Colorado AYDIN 2007
The trophi can be preserved, but they are not by themselves enough to identify species.

A bdelloid from Colorado AYDIN 2007
Buccal appendages: the mouth parts excluding the labrum: see trophi.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
Mouth-parts: a collective name including labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium and appendages = trophi.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith