Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 External morphology and functional anatomy
- 3 The integument, moulting and regeneration
- 4 The musculature and endoskeleton
- 5 The nervous system and sense organs
- 6 Sensory responses and related behaviour
- 7 Endocrinology
- 8 The alimentary canal
- 9 The poison glands
- 10 Feeding and digestion
- 11 The respiratory system
- 12 The circulatory system
- 13 Pigments
- 14 Connective tissue and fat body
- 15 Head glands
- 16 The Malpighian tubules and nephridia
- 17 The reproductive system and reproduction
- 18 Post-embryonic development and life history
- 19 Epidermal glands and their function, defence and predators
- 20 Parasites
- 21 Physiology and ecology
- 22 Taxonomy
- 23 Relationships of the chilopod orders
- 24 The classification of the Chilopoda
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The musculature and endoskeleton
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 External morphology and functional anatomy
- 3 The integument, moulting and regeneration
- 4 The musculature and endoskeleton
- 5 The nervous system and sense organs
- 6 Sensory responses and related behaviour
- 7 Endocrinology
- 8 The alimentary canal
- 9 The poison glands
- 10 Feeding and digestion
- 11 The respiratory system
- 12 The circulatory system
- 13 Pigments
- 14 Connective tissue and fat body
- 15 Head glands
- 16 The Malpighian tubules and nephridia
- 17 The reproductive system and reproduction
- 18 Post-embryonic development and life history
- 19 Epidermal glands and their function, defence and predators
- 20 Parasites
- 21 Physiology and ecology
- 22 Taxonomy
- 23 Relationships of the chilopod orders
- 24 The classification of the Chilopoda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Chilopoda possess a bewildering array of muscles and no attempt will be made here to catalogue them. Meinert (1883) described the head muscles of Scolopendra and Bekker (1926, 1949) the trunk muscles of a geophilomorph and a scolopendromorph and compared the dorsal musculature of Cryptops and Lithobius. Bücherl (1940) described the musculature of Scolopendra viridicornis Newport, and Jangi (1966) that of Scolopendra morsitans though the trunk musculature was dealt with only briefly. The extrinsic and intrinsic musculature of the antennae of S. morsitans and the musculature of its terminal legs were described by Jangi (1960, 1961). Applegarth (1952) described the musculature of the head of Pseudolithobius megaloporus (Stuxberg), Rilling (1960, 1968) the head and trunk musculature of Lithobius forficatus in great detail and Füller (1963a) the musculature of Scutigera, Necrophloesphagus and Cryptops. Manton (1965) investigated the musculature of members of all five chilopod orders: she found Bekker's descriptions of the musculature of geophilomorphs and scolopendromorphs accurate but she could not entirely confirm his findings on Cryptops. She confirmed Rilling's (1960) observations on Lithobius.
Trunk muscles
The arrangement of the trunk musculature in myriapods has been summarised by Manton (1973). She distinguished six groups of trunk muscles: superficial, dorsal, lateral and sternal longitudinals, deep oblique and deep dorso-ventral muscles (Fig. 46).
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