Journal article

Publication year: 1982

Pages: 65-73

Journal: Zoomorphology

Volume number: 100

Issue number: 1

ISSN: 0720-213X

eISSN: 1432-234X

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312200

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
In R. virgator exocrine gland complexes are found in the anal valves of both sexes. Every gland complex consists of .apprx. 200 secretory units, each of which is comprised of 4 cells: 2 secretory cells, an intermediary cell and a canal cell. The amount of secretion produced by these glands varies during the intermolt cycle: it is very small in freshly molted individuals (postmolt phase), at a medial level during the following intermolt phase, and very large in the premolt phase. The secretion may be used to form the excrement clumps and above all to build the molting chamber.

Harvard Citation style: SCHLUTER, U. (1982) THE ANAL GLANDS OF RHAPIDOSTREPTUS-VIRGATOR (DIPLOPODA, SPIROSTREPTIDAE) .1. APPEARANCE DURING THE INTERMOULT CYCLE, Zoomorphology, 100(1), pp. 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312200

APA Citation style: SCHLUTER, U. (1982). THE ANAL GLANDS OF RHAPIDOSTREPTUS-VIRGATOR (DIPLOPODA, SPIROSTREPTIDAE) .1. APPEARANCE DURING THE INTERMOULT CYCLE. Zoomorphology. 100(1), 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00312200