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A clam is a type of feeder known as a filter feeder. Filter feeders strain particles like food from the water using an internal filtering system.
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What type of eater is a clam?
The Clam is a filter feeder sometimes. Baby clams will eat other baby clams and baby fish.
What does a mollusk clam eat?
Clam is filter feeder . It filters particulate organic matter from water with help of cilia and mucous .
Why is a clam called a filter feeder?
A clam is called a filter feeder because it sucks in water and food (plankton and other microscopic creatures) through its incurrent siphon. Then, it filters the water with its gills and the waste water is excreted through the excurrent siphon. Then, the labial palps push the food into the clams mouth and the clam starts eating.
Is clam a forager grazer filter feeder predator scavenger or parasite?
Clams are filter feeders. They are not parasites, scavengers, predators, or foragers. yes a clam is a scavenger
What type of feeder is the jellyfish?
I believe it is a suspension feeder, but I'm not sure...
What is the type of feeder of a blue whale?
The blue whale is a filter feeder.
Is a clam and invertebrate or an insect?
No, "clam" is a casual term for a mollusk; a filter-feeder type of freshwater or marine animal that has two calcareous shells (valves) joined near a hinge with a flexible ligament. Arthropods are invertebrate animals that have an exoskeleton (external skeleton), segmented body, and jointed appendages (legs), such as spiders (arachnids) or lobsters (crustaceans).
What is a sentence for clam?
A sentence for clam can be: " Clams are a type of shellfish as well as shrimp."
What type of food should be placed in a bird feeder?
The type of food you place in your bird feeder depends upon which type of feeder it is. The most common food to feed the wild birds is black oil sunflower seed.
What type of feeder is a dingo?
babyvore
What type of feeder is the flea?
self
What type of feeder is a crocodiles?
They are carnivores
