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ECHINODERMATA RADIAL ORGANS 



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panying diagram will help to make this clear. The genus Ypsilo- 

 thurix seems to have become fixed while in the act of being similarly 

 modified. 



In the genus Psychropotes (Fig. 223, p. 285) the dorsal surface is 

 prolonged beyond the anus into a long caudal appendage directed 

 posteriorly. Peniagone is distinguished by an anteriorly inclined comb, 

 rising transversely from the neck. On the swimming disc of Pelago- 

 thuria, cf. Figs. 224 and 225, p. 286. 



IV. Position and Arrangement of the Most Important Organs 



in the Radii. 



The position and arrangement of the organs in the radii can best 

 be explained by describing cross -sections. In the Asteroidea, the 



FIG. 352. Transverse Section of a radial region of the body wall of a Holothurian, 

 partly diagrammatic. 1, Endothelium of the body cavity ; 2, circular musculature ; 3, longitudinal 

 musculature ; 4, motor nerve ; 5, radial water vascular canal ; 6, radial blood lacuna ; 7, radial 

 I'idfte of the deeper oral nervous system ; 8, ampulla ; 9, cutis ; 10, epidermis ; 11, tube-foot canal 

 of the vascular system ; 12, tube-foot ; 13, nerve of the same ; 14, vessel of the same ; 15, radial 

 nerve strand of the superficial oral nervous system ; 10, epineural canal ; 17, peripheral nerve ; 18, 

 pseudohaemal canal. 



Ophiuroidea, and the Crinoidea, in which the body is produced radially 

 into arms, the sections to be described will be those of the arms ; in 

 the Holothurioidea and Ecliinoidea the sections are of a radial region of 

 the body wall. 



Holothurioidea (Fig. 352). In a transverse section through a 



