1926 J. S. Huxley xvii. 209 The endostyle degenerates together with the rest of the mud-feeding apparatus.
1964 2 122 Mud-feeding animals play a significant part in re-working the sediment even on the floor of the abyssal parts of the ocean.
1990 60 355/2 A small number of Curimata argentea (mud-feeding curimatid)..were collected in the extreme downstream segment of Caño Volcán.