Saturday 16 June 2012

SETAE,GENITAL PAPILLAE,SEGMENTATION-PHERETIMA

SETAE-The middle of each segment there is a ring curved bristles called setae or chaetae,formed of a horny nitrogenous organic substances,known as chitin. Each seta is embeded in a small pit in the bodywall, called the setal sac. It is yellow in colour and is shaped like an elongated 's' with a swollen middle part ,called nodulus.The arrangement of numerous setae in a ring in each segment is known as perichaetina arrangement as, in pheretima.
GENITAL PAPILLAE-The genital papillae one pair in the 17 and 19 pair segment on the ventral surface.The each papilla bears a shallow cup-like depressions at its top which acts a sucker during copulation.
SEGMENTATION-The soft and naked body of earth worm is divided into 100 to 120 segments called metameres or somites.The external segmentation corresponds with the internal segmentation of the body.

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