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tadpole. Subsequently these depressions meet in front and 

 become converted into a U-shaped groove. In the poste- 

 rior pair of plates, the gill plates, there appear two vertical 

 grooves, which later become converted into the gill slits; 

 later two additional slits appear, one before and one behind 

 the other two, but none of them break through until after 



Gs G« 



Fig. 24.— Embryos. Gp, gill plate; Gs, Gs', U\o gill slits ; ^^ suckers ; S/>, 

 sense plate ; Afi, anus. (From Morgan, after Schultze.) 



the tadpole leaves the jelly. In the middle line, just 

 above the ventral sucker, the beginning of the moulk 

 appears as a hollow depression of the ectoderm, but it 

 does not communicate with the archenteron until a much 

 later period. The a/u/s begins as an invagination of the 

 ectoderm a short distance behind the point where the 



