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XVI.—The True Shape, Relations, and Structure of the Alimentary Viscera of the Porpoise (Phocœna communis), as displayed by the Formal Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

David Hepburn  and
David Waterston
David Hepburn
Affiliation:
Lecturer on Regional Anatomy
David Waterston
Affiliation:
Demonstrator of Anatomy, University of Edinburgh.
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Introductory.—Among the toothed whales (Odontoceti) the porpoise is the best-known representative of those members of the genus Delphinus or true dolphins which present a rounded muzzle as distinguished from a snout, and consequently it has already frequently been subjected to anatomical examination of a more or less detailed character. As in the case of all the Cetacea, however, the rapidity with which decomposition affects the various tissues and organs has hitherto proved a barrier to a prolonged and systematic examination of them, while, even under the most favourable conditions, the increasing putridity of the carcase has seriously militated against the recording of accurate observations.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , 1905 , pp. 313 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1905

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References

page 315 note * Sir Turner, Wm., Jour. of Anat. and Phys., vol. xxvi. p. 264Google Scholar.

page 316 note * In a monograph entitled, “Recherches sur le développement de la cavité hépato-entérique de l'Axolotl et de l'arrière cavité du péritoine chez les mammifères (Lapin), par Albert Brachet, Archives de Biologie, tome XIII., 1893, pp. 559–;618 (Plates XXIV. to XXVII.), the following passage occurs:—“La fermeture de cet hiatus” (de Winslow) “chez l'lamphibien, provient de ce que le bord postérieur du méso-latéral est très peu étendu, et que dans son intérieur ne pénètre pas le foie. Ce bord, se continuant dans le mésoduodénum à son extrémité intérieure, se soude peu à peu à lui, de bas en haut. L'union entre les deux, progressant dans ce sens, aniène l'occlusion de l'hiatus.”

page 319 note * Turner, , Jour. of Anat. and Phys., vol. xxvi. pp. 258–270Google Scholar.