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Fig. 66.—Valvata
piscinalis Müll.: br,
branchia; fi, filament;
f.l, foot lobes. (After
Boutan.)
Fig. 67.—Doris
(Archidoris)
tuberculata L., Britain:
a, anus; br, branchiae,
surrounding the anus;
m, male organ; rh, rh,
rhinophores. × ⅔.
Fig. 68.—Pleurophyllidia
lineata Otto,
Mediterranean: a,
anus; br, secondary
branchiae; m, mouth;
s.o, sexual orifice.
Certain of the Nudibranchiata possess no special breathing
organs, and probably respire through the skin (Elysia, Limapontia,
Cenia, Phyllirrhoë). The majority, however, have developed
secondary branchiae, in the form of prominent lobes or leaf-like
processes (the cerata), which are carried upon the back, without any
means of protection. These cerata are, as a rule, of extreme beauty
and variety of form, consisting sometimes of long whip-like
tentaculae, in other cases of arborescent plumes of fern-like leafage,
in others of curious bead-like appendages of every imaginable shape
and colour. In Doris they lie at the posterior end of the body, in a sort
of rosette, which is generally capable of retraction into a chamber. In
Phyllidia and Pleurophyllidia these secondary branchiae lie, as in
Patella, on the lateral portions of the mantle.
The Scaphopoda in all probability possess neither true nor
secondary branchiae.
Pulmonata.—When we use the term ‘lung,’ it must be
remembered that this organ in the Mollusca does not correspond,
morphologically, with the spongy, cellular lung of vertebrates; it
simply performs the same functions. The ‘lung,’ in the Mollusca, is a
pouch or cavity, lined with blood-vessels which are disposed over its
vaulted surface in various patterns of network. The pulmonary sac or
cavity is therefore a better name by which to denote this organ.