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GO MP A RA TI VE A NA TOM Y 



CHAP. 



The cutis in Atlanta is still comparatively thin. The network of muscles lying 

 immediately beneath it is not more strongly developed than in other Gastropods. 

 A special sj^stem of crossing nniscle fibres independent of the other dermal muscula- 

 ture lies on each side under the cutis of the 

 tin. This is the case in all Hctcropoda. 



The integument greatly increases in 

 thickness in the typical Heteropoda 

 {Carinaria, Fterotracliea), and the sub- 

 cutaneous muscular tube also grows 

 thicker. Over the body the latter con- 

 sists of two superimposed layei'S of fibres 

 crossing one another diagonally. In the 

 outer layer, the fibres run from above 

 anteriorly downwaids posteriorly, and in 

 the inner from below anteriorly to above 

 posteriorly. On the head and snout, the 

 visceral dome and the tail-like metapo- 

 dium, the diagonal fibres of both layers 

 run longitudinally. In addition, an ex- 

 ternal circular musculature is found in 

 Fig. KHi. -Patella, from ab,n-e, after removal Carinaria nearly all over the body, in 

 of the .shell (after Lankester). c, The separate t,^ ^ ^ i • _,i _, 



bundles of the shell muscle, the section of which Pt^rotrachea only m the snout. 

 is horseshoe-shaped ; I, pericardium ; Ix, fibrous Turning now to Carinaria, which 



septum behind the same ; n, digestive gland ; int, still possesses a delicate, easily detachable 

 intestine ; k, larger right nephridium ; i, smaller shell covering the visceral dome, but un- 

 left ditto; c, mantle border, widening anteriorly iix i.i. i.i ifiiii 



. . ,, Vi , , , , ,. i, able to protect any other part of the body, 



into the mantle fold ; ecr, em, edge ot mantle. '■ j l j ' 



we find the columellar muscle still per- 

 sisting in the form of two bands descending from the visceral dome into the fin and 

 radiating out to its edge. 



In Pterotrachca, where the shell is wanting and the visceral dome rudimentary, 

 the columellar muscle is also reduced. It has now no connection with the visceral 

 dome, and commences half-way up the body wall as three short bands running down 

 into the fin and radiating out to its edge. 



The columellar muscle, which originally served for drawing the foot back into 

 the shell, now serves chiefly to bring about the lateral movements of the vertical 

 rowing fin into which the foot has been transformed. 



2. OpisthobrancMa. 



The columellar muscle is well developed in forms possessing a shell into 

 which the body can be partly or wholly withdrawn. Where, however, the shell 

 is rudimentary or wanting, as is the case with most Opisthobranchia, the 

 columellar muscle atrophies or perhaps forms jjart of the pedal musculature. The 

 subcutaneous dernio - muscular tube, on the other hand, develops in proportion 

 to the activity of the animal. It consists of longitudinal, circular, and diagonal 

 muscle fibres, which occasionally form a regular network. The pedal musculature 

 is merely a thickened portion of this dermo-muscular tube in which longitudinal 

 fibres predominate. The development of the musculature varies much in detail. 

 Where movable or contractile dorsal appendages, gills, oral lobes, oral discs, para- 

 podia, etc., are developed, their musculature is detached from the dermo-muscular 

 layer, and the latter, in combination with the occasionally tough skin, forms a 

 passive organ of support for the former. 



A columellar muscle is further found in the Ptcropoda thecosomata. It is ventral 



