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1. On the Structure of Pedicellina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

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The author maintained that the genus Pedicellina, notwithstanding the circular arrangement of its tentacula, does not properly belong to the infundibulate Polyzoa at all, but is in reality hippocrepian, of which type, however, it presents a remarkable modification. The intestine at first sight appears to terminate within the margin of a orbicular lophophore, and, consequently, within the circle of tentacula, and thus to present a striking exception to the admitted plan of the Polyzoa. It was shown, however, that the anomaly which thus seems to exist was only apparent, for the lophophore, when carefully examined, is found to be constructed on the hippocrepian type, with the tentacula confined to the outer or convex margin, and the arms of the crescent united at their extremities so as to enclose a space, around which the tentacula will then be arranged in an uninterrupted circle, and within which the intestine opens, its termination being thus quite normal, and properly external to the lophophore.

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Proceedings 1856-57
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857

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