. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. ACXINOZOA. 227 they become alter-. Fro. \7l.—Bl„.'.fofi-ric',us 7iutrix (after C. Sem- per). iX, Lateral bud. chamber* appears first, surpassing in size those which follow it. The opposite (posterior) unpaired tentacle and the other paired tentacles then make their first appearance as small wart-like prominences. When the twelve tentacles have been formed, nately equalised, so that six larger tentacle>', amongst which are reckoned the unpaired ten- tacles of the long axis, alternate with the same
. Elementary text-book of zoology, general part and special part: protozoa to insecta. Animals. ACXINOZOA. 227 they become alter-. Fro. \7l.—Bl„.'.fofi-ric',us 7iutrix (after C. Sem- per). iX, Lateral bud. chamber* appears first, surpassing in size those which follow it. The opposite (posterior) unpaired tentacle and the other paired tentacles then make their first appearance as small wart-like prominences. When the twelve tentacles have been formed, nately equalised, so that six larger tentacle>', amongst which are reckoned the unpaired ten- tacles of the long axis, alternate with the same number of smaller ones, and we have two cii-clos of six tentacles of the first and the same number of the second order. The asexual reproduction by gemmation and fission is of great significance. Buds can be formed in various positions, even at the oral end, in which case a strobila-like form appears. In Blastotrochus the buds appear at right angles to the axis of the parent animal (fig. I'l). If the individuals so produced remain connected with one another, a polyp-stock is formed, which may attain very vai^ious forms and great size. As a rule the individuals are imbedded in a common body mass, the ccenenchyrn, and their gastiic cavities communicate more or less directly, so that the juices acquired in the in- dividual polyps penetrate into the collective stock. This stock afibrds us an excellent example of an animal community built up out of similar members. The foi'mation of the generative products alone is distributed, as a»rule, to different individuals, which, however, unite in dis- charging all animal and vege- tative functions together (tis;. 172). The skeletal formations of the fjg. 172. polyps are specially worthy of remark {polyj)aria). In almost every case, with the exception of Ac- tinia, there is a deposit of solid calcareous matter in the mesoderm, and * Like the first tentacle of the .young Scyphistoma polyp among the Ihjdre- Please note that th
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