. A junior course of practical zoology. Zoology. ARTERIAL SYSTEM 231 and backwards in the body-wall and along the hinder border of the pectoral girdle to the pectoral fins, which they supply. The cceUac artery is a large median vessel arising from the ventral surface of the aorta, about half an inch behind the openings of the last pair of efferent branchial vessels. It runs backwards in the mesentery close to the dorsal surface of the stomach, and divides into two^. Fio. 40.—Scylliom canicula. Transveise section passing throngh the posterior dorsal fin. (a. k. m.) A, homy fibre. B, fin-ray oi


. A junior course of practical zoology. Zoology. ARTERIAL SYSTEM 231 and backwards in the body-wall and along the hinder border of the pectoral girdle to the pectoral fins, which they supply. The cceUac artery is a large median vessel arising from the ventral surface of the aorta, about half an inch behind the openings of the last pair of efferent branchial vessels. It runs backwards in the mesentery close to the dorsal surface of the stomach, and divides into two^. Fio. 40.—Scylliom canicula. Transveise section passing throngh the posterior dorsal fin. (a. k. m.) A, homy fibre. B, fin-ray oi tlie dorsal fin. C, myotomes. D, neural SDine. £j, base of neural arch. F, uotochord. G-j calcified portion of centrum. H, lisemal arch. 1, spinal cord. E, X,; caudal artery. M, caudal vein. main branches, one of which supplies the proximal end of the stomach and the Hver, and the other the first part of the intestine and the pancreas, iii. The mesenteric artery is a median vessel arising from the aorta about an inch and a half behind. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Marshall, A. Milnes (Arthur Milnes), 1852-1893; Hurst, C. Herbert (Charles Herbert), 1856?-1898, joint author. London, Smith, Elder


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