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COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 



CHAP. 



reaching as far as the base of that organ. This is the proboscidal 

 divertieulum of the buccal cavity (Fig. 456), and is preoral. Its 

 epithelial wall is a continuation of the epithelial wall of that cavity. 



Special. In the proboscidal divertieulum, a narrower posterior neck and an 

 anterior head or body can usually be distinguished. In section, the neck appears 



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FIG. 456. Ptychodera minuta. The proboscidal, collar, and anterior branchial regions, cut 

 through the middle line, and seen from the cut surface, diagrammatic (after Spengel). 1, Probos- 

 cidal divertieulum of the buccal cavity ; 2, ventral septum of the proboscis ; 3, skeleton of the 

 proboscis ; 4, buccal cavity ; 5, ventral vessel of the collar ; 6, ventral nerve cord of the trunk ; 7, 

 oesophagus ; 8, ridge forming the boundary between the resophagus and the branchial intestine ; 9, 

 ventral blood vessel of the trunk ; 10, dorsal blood vessel of the trunk ; 11, branchial intestine, 

 with the gill-slits ; 12, dorsal nerve cord of the trunk ; 13, dorsal blood vessel of the collar ; 14, 

 roots of the collar cord ; 15, collar cord ; 16, proboscis pore ; 17, coelom of the collar traversed 

 by muscle fibres ; 18, anterior wall of the collar ; 19, nerve layer at the base of the proboscis ; 

 20, central blood vascular cavity of the proboscis ; 21, heart vesicle ; 22, proboscidal glomerulus ; 

 23, proboscidal epithelium ; 24, a part of the longitudinal musculature traversing the proboscidal 

 cavity. 



semilunar, with the concavity directed downwards. In Schizocardium and Glandi- 

 ceps, the head is continued anteriorly into a narrow blind canal, the vermiform 

 process, which runs through the proboscidal cavity almost axially. 



In Balanoglossus canadensis, the neck is wanting, the head of the divertieulum 

 consequently forming a constricted vesicle. In other species, the continuity of the 

 lumen may be interrupted here and there. 



