animals

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Next after

the oesophagus comes the stomach, two-horned, to the centre of which
is attached a simple and delicate gut; and the gut terminates
outwards, at the operculum, as has been previously stated. (The crab
has the parts in between the lids in the neighbourhood of the teeth
similar to the same parts in the crawfish.) Inside the trunk is a
sallow juice and some few little bodies, long and white, and others
spotted red. The male differs from the female in size and breadth, and
in respect of the ventral flap; for this is larger in the female
than in the male, and stands out further from the trunk, and is more
hairy (as is the case also with the female in the crawfish).

So much, then, for the organs of the malacostraca or crustacea.