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3. On the Nephridia of Hirudo medicinalis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

A. B. Griffiths
Affiliation:
(London and Paris);, Principal, and Lecturer on Chemistry and Biology, School of Science, Lincoln.
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Extract

The nephridia of Hirudo medicinalis, as is well known to biologists, are in pairs extending from the second to the eighteenth segments (somites). Each nephridium consists of a much convoluted cellular tube. The cells of the tube are perforated by small ducts. The nephridia (“segmental organs”) open externally on the ventral side of the body.

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Proceedings 1886-87
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1888

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“Researches on the Problematical Organs of the Invertebrata, especially those of the Cephalopoda, Gasteropoda, Lamellibranchiata, Crustacea, Inseeta, and Oligochseta,” read before the Eoyal Society, Edinburgh, May 16, 1887.Google Scholar

Proc. Roy. Soc, vol. xlii. (1887), p. 392.Google Scholar