On the male generative organs of Chlamydophorus truncatus and Dasypus sexcinctus / by M. Watson.

  • Watson, Morrison.
Date:
1878
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    [From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, June 18, 1878.] On the Male Generative Organs of Chlamydophorus trun- catus and Dasypus sexcinctus. By M. Watson, M.D., Professor of Anatomy, Owens College, Manchester. (Plate XLIII.) 1. Chlamydophorus truncatus. The anatomy of Chlamydophorus truncatus has formed the subject of elaborate monographs by Hyrtl1, Macalister2, and others3; and little remains to be said regarding such parts of the animal as have been fully investigated by these anatomists. On looking over their essays, however, I find that, with regard to the male genera- tive organs, we possess almost no reliable information. Professor Hyrtl’s specimen was a female ; and although that anatomized by Professor Macalister was of the opposite sex, his reference to the male organs is sufficiently meagre to justify me in giving a detailed description of these from two male specimens of this rare mammal which have lately come into my hands. 1 Denkschriften der kais. Akad. Wien, ix. 1855. 2 Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. 1875, p. 219. 3 Harlan, Lond. Zool. Journ. 1825; Atkinson, Journ. of Anatomy, vol. v. [1]