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THE CEPHALOPUORA. 



^217. 



§ 217. 



The Heart is wanting in only a few genera of the Cephalophora."' Almost 

 always it has a pericardium/-' and is divided into a simple, very muscular 

 ventricle, and a thin-walled auricle which is equally simple, rarely double. *■'* 



The arterial blood passes from the respiratory organs into the auricle, 

 thence into the ventricle, from which it is forced through a very short aorta 

 over the body. These two chambers of the heart are usually pyriform, and 

 are joined together at their large extremity by a constriction in which is 

 sometimes situated a valve, which prevents the return of the blood into the 

 auricle. ^^> 



The position of the heart usually depends upon that of the respiratory 

 organs. It is generally situated at the base of the branchiae, or in the 

 bottom of the pulmonary cavity. It is most often found, therefore, upon 

 the right side of the body.''^ 



Von den ausser. Lebensbeding. d. weiss-und 

 KaltblCitigen TLiere. p. 72 ; Ehrenberg, Uner- 

 kaunte Struct, loc. cit. Tab. VI. fig. I. 1, II. 1 

 (^Arion and PalucUna) ; and Erdl, De Helicis 

 algirae vasis sanguiferis. Diss. MonacU. 18-10, p. 

 10. 



With Plan or his, the blood is red. With the 

 Ceplialopliora in general, there is only a very 

 small quantity of fibrine, at least there is only a 

 trace in the blood of Helix ; it forms a kind of a 

 web, scarcely visible, uniting the globules into mass- 

 es and rows. The nuclei of these blood-globules 

 become very distinct by the addition of acetic acid.* 



1 Forbes (Instit. 18-13, p. 358), and Darwin (Ann. 

 of Nat. Hist. XIII. p. 3), have been unable to find 

 a heart with Sagitta ; although VOrbigyiy (Voy. 

 dans I'Amer. mer., or Isis. 1839, p. .Wl) affirms 

 that he has seen the movements of this organ in 

 this enigmatical animal, and Darwin (loc. cit. 

 p. 6) lias perceived a pulsating organ at the 

 anterior e.xtremity of the embryos. The heart 

 is wanting, according to Quatrefages (loc. cit. 

 I.), in Zep/iyrina, Actaeon, and Arnphorina ; 

 and according to Kolliker, in Flabellina, Hho- 

 dope, and Lissosoma. However, Souleyet 

 (Comp. Kend. XX. 1845, p. 73) contradicts, very pos- 

 itively, the assertions of (Quatrefages, and assigns 

 a heart to all the Apneusta. The difficulties in the 

 study of these animals, from their non-transparency, 

 are undoubtedly the cause of many of these contra- 

 dictory statements. One should not, also, conclude 

 as to the organization of the adults from the develop- 

 ment of the embryos ; for it is very singular that 

 the embryos of Actaeon are completely developed 

 without a heart {Fost, Comp. Kend. XXI. No. 14, 

 XXII. No. 9, or Froriep's neue Not. No. 795, 



and 820), while with the other Gasteropoda the 

 heart appears very early in the embryonic de- 

 velopment. According to Nordmnnn (hx;. cit. p. 

 93), the embryos of Tergipes, which has a heart, 

 are developed as those of Actaeon, thus showing 

 that the absence of this organ in these last is only 

 a delay of its appearance. 



Wilms (loc. cit. p. 11) has been also equally 

 unable to find a heart with Sagitta. 



i The pericardium is ajiparently wanting with 

 the Apneusta. 



3 C/iiton, Haliotis, Fissurella, and Emargi- 

 nula have two lateral auricles ; the last three of 

 these Scutibranchia resemble moreover the La- 

 mellibranchia in their heart being traversed by 

 the rectum -, see Cuvier, loc. cit., and Meckel, 

 Syst. d. vergleich. Anat. V. p. 115. 



4 See Cuvier, loc. cit. PI. I. fig. 2-4, II. fig. 1 ; 

 Cams, Erlauterungstafeln Hft. VI. Taf. II. fig. 6 

 {Helix); and /'«« Beneden, Exerc. zoot. loc. cit. 

 PI. III. fig. 11 (Hi/alea). 



Nordmann (loc. cit. p. 26, Tab. in. fig. 4) 

 found with Tergipes, the auriculo-ventricular val- 

 vular apparatus replaced liy a very movable valve 

 situated between the ventricle and the bulb of the 

 aorta. With Limax, and Arion, the valves are 

 wholly wanting {Treviranus, Beobacht. aus d. 

 zoot. u. Phys. p. 40). 



5 The heart is situated on the riglit side of the 

 back, with most of the Tectibranchia, with the 

 dextral Pectinibranchai, and Pulmonata, and with 

 all the Lhnacina ; while it is on the opposite 

 side with Ancylus, Haliotis, and all the sinisti'al 

 Gasteropoda. That of Carinaria, Clio, Hyalea, 

 and Cleodora, is upon the dorsal median line, a 

 little to the left, t 



* [ § 216, note 2.] Leydig (loc. cit.) describes 

 the blocd of Paludina as containing two forms of 

 corpuscles ; one, round, which became granular 

 nucleated cells after the action of acetic acid ; 

 the other provided on one side with ])rocesse3 

 which disappeared upon the action of acid ; see 

 loc. cit. p. 170, Taf. XII. fig. 47, 48. In this con- 

 nection, see also for the blood-cori)Uscle3 of the 

 Gasteropoda (Buccinvm magnum) and their de- 

 velopment, Wharton Jones, P'-ilos. Trans. 1846, 

 Part II. p. 96, PI. II. fig. 1-7, of the Gasteropoda 

 division. Jones also mentions the stellate form of 

 the corpuscle (fig. 4). It would apj)ear to me that 

 this peculiarity is, after all, only a crenulation due 



to an exosmotic passage of the cell-contents — leav- 

 ing the cell-membrane thus deeply wrinkled, as 

 may often be observed also with the blood of verte- 

 brates. — Ed. 



t [ § 217, note 5.] With Firola, and Atlanta, 

 the heart is situated near the posterior extremity 

 of the body ; its auricle and ventricle are com- 

 posed of interlaced, striated muscular fibres ; both 

 the am'iculo-ventricular and the aorto-ventricular 

 orifices are valvular ; see Huxley, Ann. d. Sc. Nat. 

 XIV. 1850, p. 193. 



See also, for the heart its positions and connec- 

 tions, with the Lymnaeacea, De St. Himoii, Jour 

 de Conchol. 1852, II. p. 113. — Ed. 



