canalicula

Updated: May 9, 2025

All these muscles are composed of spindle shaped cells, which are capable of spasmodic motion, but recently in an Australian sponge, the Euspongia canalicula, the lecturer said he had observed muscles approaching very nearly in character those of the human frame. That sponges have nerves is a discovery of recent date by a member of the Royal Microscopical Society. Dr.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887