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Studies in the Functional Morphology and Embryology of Onchidella Celtica (Forbes and Hanley) and their Bearing on its Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Vera Fretter
Vera Fretter
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Departments of Zoology, Birkbeck and Royal Holloway Colleges, University of London
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Onchidella celtica lives in communities in intertidal rock crevices, emerging only when uncovered by the tide during the milder months (March- November). It feeds on young algae and diatoms, rasping them from the rock with the radula which is lubricated by a mucous saliva. The distensible crop and stomach afford ample storage space for the food. The stomach consists of three chambers (Fig. 2), and the dorsal (d) and ventral (v) chitinous plates of the posterior one, the gizzard, crush the contents and help to direct the soluble portion towards the ducts of the digestive gland. There are three of these the two anterior (Id, rd) are large and lead from the initial chamber of the stomach (ic), the third (pd) is small and joins the posterior wall of the gizzard (pzv). The digestive gland secretes into the stomach; no cellulase occurs. Feeding experiments suggest that the digestive cells of the gland absorb only fluid. Lime and excretory cells occur in the crypts of the digestive epithelium, the latter concerned with taking up excretory matter from the blood and elaborating it into spherical masses for evacuation with the faeces

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , September 1943 , pp. 685 - 720
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1943

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