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"...to facilitate this type of foraging, its mouthparts, except for the mandible, are covered with a variety of setae designed for sediment denitrification." The reader needs to have explained the connection between ingesting the biofilm and denitrification. Bioturbation might be a useful link, if it could be worked in. --Wetman (talk) 08:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)Reply