Title: Fresh-water biology
Identifier: cu31924090292669 (find matches)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Henry Baldwin, 1865-1945; Whipple, George Chandler, 1866-1924. joint author
Subjects: Freshwater biology
Publisher: New York, John Wiley & sons, inc. ; (etc. ,etc. )
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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FREE-LIVING NEMATODES SOI 6i (60) Form of cavity various, closed in front, amphids opposite it. . 62 62 (63) Lateral organs or amphids inconspicuous Trilobus Bastian. Fresh-water genus of which about half a dozen species are known. Known to feed upon diatoms in one case and upon rotifers in another. Hermapfiroditism occurs. Representative species. Trilobus longus (Leidy) i85r. source of nourishment of tills species, about one-fourth as wide as the body. The lips bear papillae but their number is not „. known. The intestine frequently contains diatoms in large numbers, indicating that these are a common The longitudinal fields are distmctly developed, and From the sUghtly elevated vulva the vagina leads in- ward at right angles to the ventral surface fully half way across the body. The refiexed ovaries pass about two-thirds of the way back to the vulva. Two or three eggs may occur in each uterus at one time. These are somewhat ellipsoidal and thin shelled, being about two- thirds as long as the body is wide and about two-thirds as wide as long. The eggs appear to pass through at least the early stages of segmentation before being deposited. The walls of the vagina present the pecuharity of being very thick, and composed of six to seven con- centric layers so that the organ is considerably broader than it is deep. Its internal wall presents the peculiarity of staining strongly with carmine. Trilobus longus, the only American fresh-water nematode outside the Mermithidae that had been adequately characterized previous to the inception of this chapter, was described by the famous Philadelphia naturaUst, Dr. Joseph Leidy, in 1851. At that time extremely Uttle was known about the free-living fresh-water nematodes, and no one dreamed of their vast number and variety. The peculiar male supplementary organs of Trilobus did not fail to attract atten- tion, and it is owing to this fact that Leidy's name is associated with the striking species selected as a representative of the genus. Habitat: Mud about the bases of aquatic plants, in pools, ditches, rivers, and lakes through- out the country.
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Fig. 806. Trilobus longus. I,"maie; II, head, lateral view; III, head, lateral view; IV, head, ventral view; V, anterior supple- mentary organ; VI, posterior supplementary organ; VII, two supplementary organs from an exceptional female. a, lateral seta; b, papilla; c, submedian seta; d, pharynx; e, lateral organ; /, tooth; g, tooth; h, esoph- agus; i, nerve-ring; j, excretory pore; k, body muscles; /, glandular (?) organs; m, intestine; n, bhnd end anterior testicle; 0, testicle; p, junction of testicles; 5, blind-end posterior testicle; r, vas deferens: s, nerve of supplementary organ; (, cavity of supplementary organ; u, left spiculum; v, accessory piece; w, the three caudal glands; x, anus; y, terminus; z, apex of supplementary organ. (After Cobb.)

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