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ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



pert 



phr 



sheath, the guard, produced into a horny or calcareous plate, the 

 pro-ostracum (pen.). In Sepia the spine-like projecting point 



represents the guard, and the main sub- 

 stance of the shell is to be looked upon as 

 the pro-ostracum and phragmacone, the 

 septa of the latter being represented by 

 the calcareous lamella 1 . In the Squids 

 (e.g., Lolifjo) the shell (Fig. 688, B) is long, 

 narrow, and completely horny ; it corre- 

 sponds to the pro-ostracum, the phrag- 

 macone being entirely absent. 



In Octopus the shell is represented only 

 by a pair of vestiges with which muscles 

 are connected. In Argonauia there is no 

 shell in the male, but the female has an 

 external shell (Fig. 696) of a remarkable 

 character. This is a delicate spiral struc- 

 ture the internal cavity of which is not 

 divided into chambers. It is not secreted 

 by the mantle like the shells of other 

 Mollusca, but by the surfaces of a pair of 

 the arms ending in expanded disc-like 

 extremities, which become applied to its 



outer surface (Fig. 689) ; its chief function is to carry the eggs. 

 An internal cartilaginous skeleton is present not only in 

 Sepia and Nautilus, as already described, but in all the Cephalo- 

 poda. Such an internal skeleton occurs in other groups some 



FIG. 605. Shell of a Belem- 

 nite. </d. guard; pen, 

 pro-ostracum ; phr. phrag- 

 mocone. (From Nicholson 

 and Lydekker's Palfeonto- 



Fin. DIM;. Shell of Argonauto argo. 



Chaetopoda (p. 472), Crustacea, and Arachnida (p. 667) but 

 attains a much more elaborate character in the present group than 

 in any oilier Invertebrates. 



