Some articles on flame cells:
Nemertea - Description - Excretion
... In nemertean protonephridia, flame cells which filter out the wastes are embedded in the front part of the two lateral fluid vessels ... The flame cells remove the wastes into two collecting ducts, one on either side, and each duct has one or more nephridiopores through which the wastes exit ... Semiterrestrial and freshwater nemerteans have many more flame cells than marines, sometimes thousands ...
... In nemertean protonephridia, flame cells which filter out the wastes are embedded in the front part of the two lateral fluid vessels ... The flame cells remove the wastes into two collecting ducts, one on either side, and each duct has one or more nephridiopores through which the wastes exit ... Semiterrestrial and freshwater nemerteans have many more flame cells than marines, sometimes thousands ...
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