The contraction and relaxation of the circular and longitudinal muscles help in locomotion of the earthworm. Parietal layer of coelomic epithelium: A strand of circular muscles is also present close to the parietal layer. The retractor muscles are attached to this strand.
The innermost layer of the body wall is the parietal layer of peritoneum consisting of single layer of flat cells. It forms the outer coelomic epithelium, which is a derivative of the mesoderm. The parietal layer forms the septa and the primordial germ cells. Coelom which is also known as perivisceral cavity is the space between the body wall and the alimentary canal. Coelom is filled with an alkaline fluid called as coelomic fluid. The coelom of earthworm is schizocoelom and it is divided into two compartments by the septa.
The coelom of the first four segments is undivided. The first septum is thin and membranous. It lies between the fourth and fifth segments. The intersegmental septa present between , , , and segments are thick and muscular. No septum is present between the segments. These septa are not horizontal but are oblique in disposition forming six cones with their apices directed backwards.
These septa form complete partitions without perforations on them. The intersegmental septa of , and are transverse and non-perforated.
The septum between segments is typical as all the septa that follow it are characterized by the presence of minute oval or circular sphinctered pores. These pores are the characteristic of Pheretima posthuma. By closing the septal pores, the flow of coelomic fluid is stopped making a particular region turgid and stiff. This turgidity helps in locomotion. Hence, coelomic fluid is described as hydraulic skeleton. In the coelomic fluid four types of cells are present.
They are,. Phagocytes- Phagocytes are numerous and largest nucleated cells. They have several membranous folds on the surface. These are phagocytic in nature. They are produced by lymph glands which are situated on the dorsal blood vessel from 26th segment onwards till the last segment.
There is a double row of glands in each segment. Each of these glands arises from the complex folding of anterior face of the septum and consists of masses of phagocytes. Chloragogen cells- These are small cells and are numerous in number. They are intense yellow in color and so they are also called as yellow cells. They have characteristic vesicular bulging. These are specialized cells derived from the inner coelomic epithelium. They contain yellowish granules called chloragosomes.
They collect nitrogenous wastes from the coelomic fluid and from the blood supplied to the intestinal wall. When they are loaded with wastes, they drop into the coelom as free cells called eleocytes. They are then ingested by amoebocytes. In addition to excretion of nitrogenous wastes chloragogen cells perform the following functions:. Mucocytes: These are elongated cells with a nucleus at one side and expanded fan like process at the other end.
These cells secrete mucus. Pheretima posthuma moves by alternate contraction and relaxation of circular and longitudinal muscles of the body wall. The setae and the coelomic fluid also assist in the locomotion. The body of earthworm exhibits extension, contraction and anchoring in the anterior and posterior regions during locomotion.
Circular and longitudinal muscles of the body wall are useful in extension and contraction of the body respectively. The setae are useful in anchoring. The coelomic fluid causes turgidity during locomotion of earthworm.
Metamerism is beneficial for the burrowing worms. The individual segment or a short series of segments can be made rigid by contraction of muscles against coelomic fluid.
Coelomic fluid cannot be displaced as it is trapped within each segment by septa. Thus efficiency of coelom as hydrostatic skeleton is improved. The contraction of the muscles is local but it passes backwards from anterior end, mush like a wave. Forward progression of the anterior end begins by the contraction of the circular muscles of a few anterior segments.
The wave of contraction of circular muscles passes backwards over the body of earthworm. When this wave passes over the anterior of few segments of the body, circular muscles at the anterior end of the body relax and the contractions of the longitudinal muscles sets in. This movement is coordinated by the nervous system. Segments remain at rest when the longitudinal muscles contract to the maximum extent. The protractor muscles of setal sac also contract making the setae in that segments being protruded and directed backwards.
With the relaxation of the longitudinal muscles and the simultaneous contraction of the circular muscles, the segments begin to move forwards on the ground. The retractor muscles of setal sacs contract at this time, making the setae in that segments being withdrawn. Such series of local contractions and relaxations of circular and longitudinal muscles of the body wall are repeated in the anterio-posterior axis of the body.
Free-living non-parasitic flatworms are typically less than 10 centimeters long. Marine species live buried in the sand or under rocks in shallow water. All free-living flatworms are predators that actively hunt for food.
Some live symbiotically with crabs, clams, oysters, shrimp, and barnacles. Some marine flatworms are brilliantly colored Fig. Flatworms are more complex than cnidarians. Cnidarians have two layers of cells, the ectoderm and the endoderm; flatworms have a middle layer called the mesoderm between the other two layers Fig. This extra layer is important because its cells specialize into a muscular system that enables an animal to move around.
Beginning with the flatworms, all the animals we will subsequently study have a mesoderm and muscular system. The cells of the ectoderm and endoderm are also more organized than similar cells of cnidarians. For the first time, we see groups of tissues that have evolved to form organs, such as the ones in the digestive, nervous, and excretory systems. Like the cnidarians, flatworms have a digestive system with only a single opening into the digestive cavity, but in independently living marine flatworms the cavity branches into all parts of the body Fig.
These flatworms feed through a pharynx. A pharynx is a long, tubular mouthpart that extends from the body, surrounds the food, and tears it into very fine pieces Fig.
Cells lining the digestive cavity finish digesting the food. Then the dissolved nutrients move to other cells of the body. Undigested food passes back out through the mouth, as in the cnidarians. Parasitic tapeworms usually absorb their nutrients directly from the host, while parasitic flukes have retained a digestive system. Like most self-propelling animals, independent-living flatworms have a central nervous system. A central nervous system consists of a mass of nerve cells, called a ganglion , in more complex organisms, the ganglion evolves into a brain in the anterior part of the body, and a nerve cord extending from the brain toward the posterior end of the body Fig.
Sensory cells in the head detect changes in the environment. In free-living flatworms, sensory cells that respond to light are clustered in two eyespots in the head. Sensory cells that detect water currents, solid objects, and chemicals are in two flap-like projections on the head called auricles.
In self-propelling animals, these sensory organs in the head are the first part of the animal that encounters new surroundings. The ganglion receives information from the sensory structures and sends signals to other parts of the body along two strands of nerve cells running toward the tail. The excretory system removes waste products and excess water from tissues of flatworms.
Flatworms have a surprisingly elaborate system to rid the body of wastes Fig. This network runs the length of the animal on each side and opens to the outside through small pores in the posterior region of the body.
Connected to the tubes are tiny cells that move wastes and water from the tissues into the tubes. These cells contain flagella that beat back and forth, creating a current of fluid that constantly moves toward the excretory pores. Under a microscope the flagellar movement looks like a flickering fire, and the structure is called a flame bulb.
Flatworms have no circulatory system. Animals without a circulatory system have limited abilities to deliver oxygen and nutrients to their body cells because of the way that molecules behave. As molecules spread through water, they become less concentrated as they move away from their source.
This is known as diffusion. But cnidarians have no problem with diffusion because most cells of their bag-shaped bodies are in direct contact with the water, making the exchange of oxygen and nutrients easy Fig. Flatworms, bag-shaped but flattened, also get oxygen and nutrients to their body cells easily because all their cells are close to either their outer surface or their digestive cavity Fig.
As animals become larger and more complex, diffusion is often no longer an option, and then we begin to see the development of circulatory and respiratory systems. Species in the phylum Nematoda from the Greek root word nema meaning thread are better known as the roundworms Fig. There are about 25, species of nematodes formally described by scientists. Nematodes are found in almost every habitat on Earth. One species was first discovered living inside felt beer coasters in German alehouses.
Studies of farmlands have found as many as 10, nematodes in cubic centimeters cm 3 of soil. Nematodes are similarly abundant in marine and freshwater sediments where they serve as important predators, decomposers, and prey for other species like crabs and snails.
Like flatworms, roundworm species adopt either a free-living or a parasitic lifestyle. Parasitic nematodes Fig. Many nematodes that are parasitic on plants can devastate crops. Some nematodes are cryptobiotic and have demonstrated a remarkable ability to remain dormant for decades until environmental conditions become favorable. Like the flatworms, nematodes are bilaterally symmetrical.
They take their name from their round body cross-sectional shape. Unlike the flatworms in which food and waste enter and exit from the same opening, nematodes have a complete digestive system. An animal with a complete digestive system has a mouth at one end, a long tube with specialized parts in the middle, and an anus at the other end.
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