ORGANISATION IN ANIMAIS

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STRUCTURAL

Prostomium
P'erstondn

Ring ol srtar
-Setae

C)
Female
Mouth Clitellum enital
Clitcll opening aperture

Genital Male
Metameres papillar genital
aperture
Anus

Transverse
grooves
or
annuli

(b)
(a)
(c) lateral view
dorsal view (b) ventral view
Figure 7.9 Body of earthworm (a)
showing mouth opening

called
band of glandular tissue
covered by a prominent dark
14-16 are
prominent regions
is divisible into three
clitellum. Thus the body 7.9).
and postclitellar segments (Figure
preclitellar. clitellar situated on the ventro-lateral
apertures are
Four pairs ofspermmathecal A single female
grooves, i.e. 5th-9th segments.
intersegmental A pair of
sides of the mid-ventral line of 14th segment.
is present in the the 18th
genital pore v e n t r o - l a t e r a l sides of
o n the
a r e present
on the
male genital pores minute called nephridiopores open
Numerous pores
segment. the first, last and
body segment, except
In each
surface of the body. setae, embedded
in the epidermal
there a r e r o w s of S-shaped o r retracted.
clitellum. Setae c a n be
extended
segment.
pits in the middle of each
in locomotion.
Their principal role is
7.3.2 Anatomy non-cellular
thirn
is covered externally by a
The body wall ofthe
earthwormm
layers (circular and
two muscle
is the epidermis,
cuticle below which coclomic epitheliumn. The epidermis
is made
udinal) and an innermost
orngit