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Identifier: b20416039_001 Title: On the anatomy of vertebrates [electronic resource] Year: 1866 (1860s) Authors: Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 Subjects: Anatomy, Comparative Vertebrates Fishes Reptiles Mammals Birds Publisher: London : Longmans, Green Contributing Library: Wellcome Library Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library
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Text Appearing After Image: TEGUMENTS OF REPTILES. 553 a glandular fold curves from above the tympanum to the axilla orshoulder. The skin takes an important share in respiration in theAnourous Batrachia,1 and there is a relation of e supply anddemand between the cutaneous follicles and the large allantoicbladder: the latter would seem to receive water directly by thecloaca, when the Frog may be in that element, and to serve as areservoir for the supply of cutaneous transpiration when thebatrachian is on dry land.2 The epiderm is periodically shed in Batrachia. It comes awayin shreds in the aquatic kinds. In the Toad the old epidermsplits along the middle line of both back and belly, and eachlateral half is wriggled off in folds towards the sides. It is then,by contortions of the trunk and limbs, loosened from the hind-limbs, and removed from them by the animal bringing first one andthen the other leg. forward under the arm, when, by withdrawingthe hind-leg, its cuticle is left under the fore-leg. The twoportions
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