284 STUDIES IN EVOLUTION 



brachiu, is alike in the larval stages of all brachiopods. 

 They first develop tentacles in pairs on each side of the 

 median line in front of the mouth (taxolophus stage). New 

 tentacles are continually added at the same points, until, by 

 pushing back the older ones, they form a complete circle 

 about the mouth (trocholophus stage), later becoming intro- 

 verted in front (schizolophus stage). From this common and 

 simple structure all the higher tj-pes of brachial com]3lication 

 are developed through one of two methods : (1) The growing 



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Figure 125. — Metamorphoses of brachidium of Zi/gospira and adult bra- 

 chidium of Rhi/nr/iospii-a. a, b, c, d, metamorphoses of bracliidium of Z>/fjosj)ira 

 recurvirostris. Eiilari^ed. (After Beecher and Scliuchcrt.) e, brachidium of 

 Homuospira evaz. (After Beecher and Clarke.) 



points of the lophophore, or points at which new tentacles 

 are formed, remain in juxtaposition ; or (2) they separate. 

 Complexity in the first is produced (a) by lobation, as in 

 Megathi/ris, Uudesella, Pteropldoios Thecidea, etc. (ptycholo- 

 phus type), and {h) by looping (zugolophus) and the growth 

 of a median, unpaired coiled arm (plectolophus), as in Mcu/el- 

 lania, Terehratidina, etc. ; in the second (c) by the growth of 

 two, separate, coiled extensions or arms, one on each side 

 of the median line (spirolophus), as in Lingula, Crania, Dis- 

 cinisca, llhjnclionella, Lejjtcena, Davidsonia, Spirifer^ Athyris, 

 Atrypa^ etc. 



