midgut gland
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midgut cecum — (Order Amphipoda): One of several tubular outpocketings of digestive tract. According to position, one may distinguish: (1) two pairs of posteriorly directed lateral ceca (two dorsal and two ventral) arising at stomach/midgut border and extending … Crustacea glossary
gastrohepatic gland — Digestive and storage gland in shrimps; also termed heptopancreas [Butler, T.H.]. Digestive gland associated with the midgut, within the cephalothorax [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997] … Crustacea glossary
digestive gland — (Order Decapoda): Hepatic cecum [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Stomatopoda): Pair of large glands, one originating from each side of pyloric stomach and extending along midgut. Fills most of body, giving rise to pair of lateral pouches in posterior … Crustacea glossary
hepatic gland — (Order Euphausiacea): One of two large, branching digestive organs arising ventrally at border of pyloric stomach and midgut. Extends through most of thorax. (Syn. digestive cecum, hepatic cecum, hepato pancreas) [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
peritrophic membrane gland — (Order Stomatopoda): Pair of small glands, one extending along each side of posterior (pyloric) stomach; opens into midgut and secretes membrane (peritrophic membrane) surrounding food material coming from digestive glands [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
mollusk — molluskan, molluscan /meuh lus keuhn/, adj., n. mollusklike, adj. /mol euhsk/, n. any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body,… … Universalium
Hepatopancreas — Photo of 5 mm long juvenile of Haliotis asinina with the shell removed shows hepatopancreas in yellow color on the left of the image. Drawing shows that … Wikipedia
Mosquito — For other uses, see Mosquito (disambiguation). Mosquito A female mosquito Culiseta longiareolata Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
Insect morphology — Legend of body parts Tagmata : A Head, B Thorax, C Abdomen. 1. antenna 2. ocelli (lower) 3. ocelli (upper) 4. compound eye 5. brain (cerebral ganglia) 6. prothorax … Wikipedia
cecum — (Order Cladocera): Digestive cecum [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Notostraca): One of two outpocketings of midgut. Elongate and extensively branched with carapace. Opens into digestive tract posterior to esophagus/midgut border. (Syn. midgut… … Crustacea glossary
