The physiological import of this arrangement becomes obvious when we consider in what manner the animal breathes; and indeed the integumentary interval answers very precisely to the leather which connects the two boards of a bellows.
They are separated (except perhaps the median rows) by integumentary spaces, neither overlapping nor uniting by sutures; and there are no ventral scutes.
So we go through childhood with this long funnel-shaped appendage into manhood, when the increasing size of the body of the penis restores a sort of equilibrium between the size and bulk of the organ and its integumentary covering.
In his Grundzüge of 1870, Gegenbaur made the suggestion that the investing or membrane bones were derived phylogenetically from integumentary ossifications, and this was worked out in detail a few years later by O.
All the investing bones (Deckknochen) of the skull were of common origin, and could be traced back to integumentary skeletal plates, which in the ancestral fish formed a dense carapace.
Although in Anderson’s specimens the integumentary spines had fallen off, they are still attached in my original specimens from Edinburgh.
In my original specimens the integumentary spines had fallen, probably as a result of post-mortem decomposition.
The fourth is the sexually-developed stage, furnished with a simple hook-apparatus, and without integumentary denticles.
In this way contraction of the body, aided by the integumentary denticles, will secure their entrance into the nasal cavities.
The curved body thickens towards the tail, is transversely annulated, and viewed with a penetrating lens is seen to be furnished with integumentary pores.
Bony plates seem in some species to have formed an at any rate partial covering to the skin; but it is not certain that these integumentary appendages were present in all.
The lower surface of the body was defended by an armour of singular integumentary shields or scales (fig.
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