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INVERTEBRATE MORPHOLOGY. 



Trochophore are related to each other, but hardly with so close au affinity 

 as would be implied by a statement that they are persistent Trochophores. 



II. Subclass OLiGOCHa:TA. 



The Oligochseta are with few exceptions fresh-water or ter- 

 restrial Chsetopods, and present a much simpler body form 

 pr than do the Polychsets. The first 



segment or prostornium (Fig. 103, 

 pr) is devoid of tentacles or cirri, 

 and only in a few forms are eyes 

 present upon it. The body is divided 

 into well - marked segments, but 

 parapodia are lacking, though in 

 the majority of forms setae, arranged 

 in a more dorsal (s') and a more 

 ventral (s) group, occur on the sides 

 of each metamere ; in a few forms, 

 gl however, a single series of groups 



only is present, while in Perichceta 

 the setae are arranged in a ring 

 around each metamere, and in Ana- 

 chceta they are wanting, their place 

 being indicated only by the sacks 

 in which in other forms they are 

 Fig. 108.-AntbeiorEndof developed and which proiect into 

 Lumbricus. i.i i i i i n 



the coelom as large hypodermal 



glands. As a rule, too, no branchiae 

 are present, the blood being aerated 

 through the walls of the body, mi- 

 nute branches of the blood-vessels 

 penetrating into the hypodermis in 

 the terrestrial forms ; a few aberrant 

 forms, however, possess either dorsal 

 or ventral {Ghcefobranchus) appendages, which are probably 

 respiratory in function, on many of the segments, while in 

 the genus Dero the finger-like processes of the terminal 

 metamere are probably branchiae. 



The exterior of the body is covered by a well-marked cuti- 

 cle, and beneath it lies the ectoderm or hypodermis, usually 



= clitellum. 



gl = glands, 



m = mouth. 



od = opening of oviduct, 



pr = prostornium. 



s = ventral setae. 



s' = lateral setse. 



■cd = opening of vas deferens. 



