DescriptionNIE 1905 Oyster - anatomy of Ostrea Virginica.jpg
English: Diagram showing the anatomy of the oyster of the east coast of the United States, Ostrea virginica.
Date
published 1905
Source
The New International Encyclopædia, v. 15, 1905, p. 186.
Author
unknown artist; authors of the article are Henry Frank Moore and Gilbert Van Ingen
English: Legend:
h, Hinge; l, ligament; d, pg, and sg, connective, and two
ganglia of the nervous system; p, palps; br, blood-vessel
from gills to auricle of heart; au, auricle; ve, ventricle; s,
external opening of sexual and renal organs of right side;
bp, pores from which the water issues into the branchial
canals after passing through the gills: mt, mantle (the
arrows showing the direction of currents produced by cilia);
g, gills; gc, cavity between the two mantle folds; cl, cloaca;
am, adductor muscle (cut across); bj, outline of organ
of Bojanus, the so-called ‘kidney.’
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