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The nervous system in the praesoma of Echinorhynchus salmonis (Acanthocephala: Echinorhynchidae)
Author(s) -
Gee Randall J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of morphology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.652
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1097-4687
pISSN - 0362-2525
DOI - 10.1002/jmor.1052010306
Subject(s) - acanthocephala , biology , anatomy , ganglion , proboscis , nervous system , commissure , suboesophageal ganglion , free nerve ending , zoology , neuroscience , helminths
Based on light microscopic observations, nerve pathways are described for the first time in the praesoma of a species of the Echinorhynchidae. The pathways are described for 18 nerves, 8 paired and 2 single, which originate from the cerebral ganglion and a post‐ganglionic cell and terminate in the body wall musculature and the proboscis. The location of two commissures formed by these nerves is also described.