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It is this palliai section of the oviduct that receives and stores sperm for internal fertilization and that secretes the nutritive and protective layers around the eggs. With this elaboration and differentiation of the palliai duct, new habitats in fresh water and on land were opened up to the gastropods. It is 1. Structural Organization, Adaptive Radiation, and Classification of Molluscs 31 significant, therefore, that among the archaeogastropods only the neritaceans have evolved a comparable system, and they too have successfully exploited both freshwater and terrestrial habitats.
These contain vast numbers of nerve cells, but they do not receive any direct sensory input nor do they originate any motor axons directly to effector organs. These are the "silent areas" associated with memory and learning. For further details of the cephalopod nervous system see Wells (1962) and Young (1972). In chitons the chief sense organs are the gustatory subradular organ and the unique system of aesthetes situated in vertical canals in the upper surfaces of the dorsal plates. The fine structure of these aesthetes is described by Boyle (1974).
The hermaphroditic system of aquatic pulmonates recalls that of many early opisthobranchs. , Siphonaria) indicates that the pulmonates are primitively marine. In land pulmonates such as Helix, mutual exchange of 32 R. Seed A B Fig. 9. Evolution of the genital ducts in selected gastropods. (A) A trochid (Archaeogastropoda), (B) female Nucella (Neogastropoda), (C) Aplysia (an early opisthobranch) (D) Archidoris (a nudibranch), (E) Helix (Pulmonata). A G , albumen gland; A M G , accessory mucous gland; CB, copulatory bursa; CG, capsule gland; CGA, common genital aperture; DS, dart sac; ECG, external ciliated seminal groove; F, flagellum; FA, female aperture; G, gonad; G d , gonoduct; H D , hermaphrodite duct; O, oviduct; MT, male tract; P, penis; RK, right kidney; RPD, renopericardial duct; SR, seminal receptor; UGP, urogenital pore; V, vagina; VSC, ventral sperm channel; W G , winding gland; * , site of fertilization.