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SUMÁRIO
FOLHA DE ROSTO
DEDICATÓRIA
SUMÁRIO
1 CAPÍTULO UM
2 CAPÍTULO DOIS
3 CAPÍTULO TRÊS
4 CAPÍTULO QUATRO
5 CAPÍTULO CINCO
6 CAPÍTULO SEIS
7 CAPÍTULO SETE
8 CAPÍTULO OITO
9 CAPÍTULO NOVE
10 CAPÍTULO DEZ
11 CAPÍTULO ONZE
12 CAPÍTULO DOZE
13 CAPÍTULO TREZE
A pair of ciliated excretory tubes open into the vestibule. These are
similar in structure to the "head-kidneys" of the larvae of Polychaet
worms, or to the excretory organs of adult Rotifers. Flame-cells have
been described by Davenport in the stalk of Urnatella, but it is not
known whether they are connected with the excretory tubes of the
calyx. The animals are either hermaphrodite or have separate sexes,
and the generative organs open by ducts of their own into the
vestibule. The nervous system consists of a ganglion placed
between the mouth and the anus, giving off a set of nerves, many of
which end in delicate tactile hairs placed on the tentacles or other
parts of the body.[544]
CHAPTER XVIII
POLYZOA (continued)
FRESH-WATER POLYZOA—PHYLACTOLAEMATA—OCCURRENCE—
STRUCTURE OF CRISTATELLA—DIVISION OF COLONY—MOVEMENTS OF
COLONY—RETRACTION AND PROTRUSION OF POLYPIDES IN POLYZOA—
STATOBLASTS—TABLE FOR DETERMINATION OF GENERA OF FRESH-
WATER POLYZOA—REPRODUCTIVE PROCESSES OF POLYZOA—
DEVELOPMENT—AFFINITIES—METAMORPHOSIS—BUDDING.
The tentacles are about eighty to ninety in number, and they are, as
in other Phylactolaemata, united at their bases by a delicate web.
The lophophore is horse-shoe-shaped (Fig. 236, 3) throughout the
group, with the exception of Fredericella, in which genus it is circular.
Fig. 248 shows a colony shortly after division has taken place. The
colony had moved forwards, in a direction away from its apex, for
three days in a nearly straight line, the distances moved in each day
being respectively 6, 8½, 8½ mm. These observations, for which I
am indebted to Mr. Lister, show a considerably higher speed than in
those recorded by Trembley, who observed no colony which moved
more than half an inch (12.5 mm.) in eight days.
In all these cases the egg develops inside the parent, and it was
hardly known, before the publication of the interesting researches of
M. Prouho,[572] that some of the Polyzoa lay eggs which develop
externally. In these cases a considerable number of eggs are
produced simultaneously by a single zooecium. M. Prouho further