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Adaptation of animals in muddy shore<br />

• Burrowing into the mud <strong>and</strong><br />

feeds through long siphonal<br />

canal – Cockles <strong>and</strong> Clams<br />

• Making ‘U’ shaped burrow –<br />

Arenicola <strong>and</strong> other polychaetes.<br />

One arm of U <strong>is</strong> remained open<br />

for deposit feeding.<br />

• Muddy shore animals are mud<br />

crabs, fiddler crabs, oysters,<br />

bivalves,<br />

gastropods<br />

(Telescopium, Cerithium etc.)<br />

annelid worms, f<strong>is</strong>hes-mud<br />

skipper <strong>and</strong> mud snapper etc.

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