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How do crinoids feed?

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cnidarians first paralize their prey with stinging cells on their tenticles then they slowly move the food up into the bell to digest . They have no destinct mouth or anus so the food goes in and out around the same place .

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crinoids feed by sucking the blood from the hosts anus, not necessarily the anus hole itself, but the fatty cousion that is - the anus.

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