Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiologyBerger, E. W. (Edward William)
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Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ: including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology
Berger, E. W. (Edward William)
Cubomedusae
I also note here the small secondary, non-pigmented invagination into
the tissue of the clubs from each of the distal simple eyes. Schewiakoff
describes this invagination, and it extends in a proximal and dorsal
direction (dorsal-side of club opposite complex eye) from the dorsal
sides of the distal simple eyes. The cells of these invaginations are
not pigmented, but quite like the other pigmented cells in shape, and
like these with distal flagellate fibers. I do not see the necessity
of assuming, however, that these secondary invaginations are the real
sensitive parts of these eyes, while the pigmented parts serve as an
iris, as Schewiakoff does in his general discussion.
The histological structure of both pairs of simple eyes is the same.
Sections and macerations give me evidence of only one kind of cells,
all pigmented alike (except, of course, the non-pigmented secondary
invaginations just noted). The cells in these eyes are very closely
crowded so that their nuclei lie at several different levels. That they
all extend to the lumen of the eyes and are all pigmented could be
demonstrated with certainty in many sections, when some of these cells
whose nuclei lay most centrad could be followed with the greatest nicety
to the lumen (Fig. 12). Macerations (Figs. 8, unlettered cells 21) also
show cells with very long cell bodies pigmented at their distal ends and
occasionally with a distal process or fiber. While there are, therefore,
spindle-shaped cells found, yet they are in every other respect alike,
and their differences of shape and position of nuclei are simply the
result of crowding. There is, therefore, no evidence of supporting
(pigmented) cells and spindle-shaped visual cells (pigmented only
externally) as Claus and Schewiakoff have described and which Conant and
myself cannot corroborate.
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