Filter feeder
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Filter feeders are aquatic animals that feed on organic matter, food particles or smaller organisms suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ
Mouth plates of a baleen whale
The arcuate bill of this lesser flamingo is adapted to bottom scooping.
Tunicates take water in through a siphon and then expel filtered water through another siphon.
Filter basket of a mysid
Megamouth shark
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The megamouth shark is a species of deepwater shark. Rarely seen by humans, it measures around 4–5.5 m long and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the much larger whal
Filter feeder
…of forage fish, American paddlefish, silver and bighead carps, baleen whales, manta ray and three species of sharks—the whale shark, basking shark and megamouth shark). Some water birds, such as flamingos and certain duck species, though predominantly terrestrial, are also filter feeders when foraging. Filter feeding…
Megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios
Frontal view of a preserved specimen at Marine World Uminonakamichi
Individual captured off the coast of Mie Prefecture, Japan, in 2016
Head of a megamouth shark, at Western Australian Maritime Museum