The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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... body is covered by a firm homogeneous structureless cuticle . This cuticle may become hardened by a further development of chitin , but no calcareous deposits ever take place in it . The cuticle remains softest in those forms which live ...
... body is covered by a firm homogeneous structureless cuticle . This cuticle may become hardened by a further development of chitin , but no calcareous deposits ever take place in it . The cuticle remains softest in those forms which live ...
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... body . In addition to these the body presents various processes which are perhaps some of them unrepresented in other Rotifers . In the median dorsal line immediately below the trochal disk there is a short conical process presenting a ...
... body . In addition to these the body presents various processes which are perhaps some of them unrepresented in other Rotifers . In the median dorsal line immediately below the trochal disk there is a short conical process presenting a ...
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... body as a whole are arranged as circular and lor.gitudinal series , but they are arranged in special groups and do not form a com- plete layer of the body - wall as in the various worms . Some of the Longitudinal muscles are specially ...
... body as a whole are arranged as circular and lor.gitudinal series , but they are arranged in special groups and do not form a com- plete layer of the body - wall as in the various worms . Some of the Longitudinal muscles are specially ...
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... body , at times merely sinuous , at others considerably convoluted . From these are given off at irregular intervals short lateral branches , each of which terminates in a flame - cell precisely similar in structure to the flame - cells ...
... body , at times merely sinuous , at others considerably convoluted . From these are given off at irregular intervals short lateral branches , each of which terminates in a flame - cell precisely similar in structure to the flame - cells ...
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... bodies of small Oligochates a curious non - ciliated form , Balatro calvus ( fig . 6 , A ) , which has a worm - like very contractile body and a well- developed mastax . As mentioned above , the ciliation is reduced to a minimum in the ...
... bodies of small Oligochates a curious non - ciliated form , Balatro calvus ( fig . 6 , A ) , which has a worm - like very contractile body and a well- developed mastax . As mentioned above , the ciliation is reduced to a minimum in the ...
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