This picture shows the locations of mouth, anus, lophophore, funiculus and many other features typical in a bryozoan.
A lophophore is the ciliated tentacles at the top. They are food gathering structures that can be flower like (the image) or collapsed.
The funiculus is a tendon which joins the end of the gut to the colony wall. It is the site of statoblast production and spermatogenesis.
The inconspicuously located Central Nerve Ganglion has a major nerve tract extending into each arm of the lophophore.
An Exocyst is the chitin made outer layer of the body wall. And the endocyst is the inner layer.
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