Collection: Nervous and muscle systems of free-living flatworms (Plathelminthes, "Turbellaria")

Species: Itaspiella helgolandica magna (Ax, 1967)    Turbellaria

Description: Ventral view. Image shows the brain and 3 pairs of longitudinal nerve cords (dorsal, ventral and lateral). Note many circular commissures between the cords. Fibers of submuscular nerve plexus are evenly distributed over the body.

Comments: none

Organs: сentral nervous system, nerve cord, nerve plexus, cerebral brain or its part, commissure, nerve, neural tract, peripheral nervous system

Methods: Histochemistry - revealing of choline esterases after Gerebtzoff

Publications: Котикова Е.А. Некоторые особенности нервного аппарата Proseriata (Turbellaria) // Зоол. журн., 1976 а. Т. 55, вып. 4. С. 508 – 514.

Microscope: MBI-6 with a film photocamera