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In the process of animal evolution, well-developed organs responding to changes in position with regard to the earth’s gravity field have appeared not only in vertebrates which belong to Deuterostomia, but also in some specimens of Protostomia. They are particularly well impressed in Cephalopoda, which possess specialized statocysts that contain maculae with otoliths and cristae with cupules. Physiological investigations (Boycott, Young, etc.) have shown that the macula of a statocyst is a static receptor organ signaling the orientation of the head and eyes of an animal, whereas cristae arranged in three planes respond to angular accelerations. Hence, statocysts of Cephalopoda are in their anatomy and function, analogous to the vestibular apparatus of vertebrates.
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Vinnikov, Y.A., Gasenko, O.G., Bronstein, A.A., Tsirulis, T.P., Ivanov, V.P., Pyatkina, G.A. (1968). Structural, Cytochemical and Functional Organization of Statocysts of Cephalopoda. In: Salánki, J. (eds) Neurobiology of Invertebrates. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8618-0_3
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