suctorial
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A male lamprey eel apparently recognizes sex only by attaching himself with his suctorial mouth to another eel that clings to a rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems that this habit was very widespread among the earlier Vertebrates; the larvae of many of the Ganoids and frogs have suctorial disks near the mouth.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The lampreys—except some of the small fresh-water forms—attach themselves to other fishes by their suctorial mouth and proceed to rasp off the flesh by means of the horny teeth carried by the highly-developed tongue.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
In the paddles of the gigantic extinct sea-lizards, and in the mouths of certain suctorial crustaceans, the general pattern seems thus to have become partially obscured.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
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