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Updated: May 1, 2025
These modifications do not concern us, as they depend on special adaptations, and do not affect the hereditary vertebrate type. When the free-swimming Amphioxus-larva is three months old, it abandons its pelagic habits and changes into the young animal that lives in the sand.
Transverse section of an Amphioxus-larva, with five gill-clefts, through the middle of the body. The small particles that the Amphioxus takes in with the water infusoria, diatoms, particles of decomposed plants and animals, etc. pass from the gill-crate into the digestive part of the canal, and are used up as food.
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