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yes, the quality is horrible... XD
scanner, Y U SO bad?

all right, the upper left picture is a result of a continuous development of my molluscoid heads, and I got another idea which might work as well. The thing is I really like the hagfish and their extendable rasping tongues

Thing is, I just got an idea that a similar structure could become something like a grasping arm, and only the lower two of the four tentacles here would be long, and the other two would be just short barbs, and would function more like antennae than tentacles.

The two sketches on the right are a skeletal and fleshed out head of a sturgeon-like filter-feeding ichthyid. There is a small inconsistency in it, the lower endognath should be a bony plate inside the "tongue and the bony arch under the skull should have a different name. the free.floating bone above the skull is located dorsal of a small pump-like bladder, which propells water into the gill chamber.
this is a very specialized species, it can either sand with its shovel-like upper endognath and capture small digging animals with its setae-lined jaws or it can filter small swimming animals directly out of the water. It does so by directing the incurrent to the palate. the tongue directs food items into the throat and deflects the coming water through slits in front of either posterior eye. (yes, the black spot on the top of the head is a badly visible anterior eye, the spiracle is between the anterior eyes.

Description
yes, the quality is horrible... XD
scanner, Y U SO bad?

all right, the upper left picture is a result of a continuous development of my molluscoid heads, and I got another idea which might work as well. The thing is I really like the hagfish and their extendable rasping tongues

Thing is, I just got an idea that a similar structure could become something like a grasping arm, and only the lower two of the four tentacles here would be long, and the other two would be just short barbs, and would function more like antennae than tentacles.

The two sketches on the right are a skeletal and fleshed out head of a sturgeon-like filter-feeding ichthyid. There is a small inconsistency in it, the lower endognath should be a bony plate inside the "tongue and the bony arch under the skull should have a different name. the free.floating bone above the skull is located dorsal of a small pump-like bladder, which propells water into the gill chamber.
this is a very specialized species, it can either sand with its shovel-like upper endognath and capture small digging animals with its setae-lined jaws or it can filter small swimming animals directly out of the water. It does so by directing the incurrent to the palate. the tongue directs food items into the throat and deflects the coming water through slits in front of either posterior eye. (yes, the black spot on the top of the head is a badly visible anterior eye, the spiracle is between the anterior eyes.