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- cnidarians and bilaterians.[citation needed] In cephalopods like squids, statocysts provide a cochlea-like mechanism to hear. As a result, the longfin ins****...
- organs of gastropods (snails and slugs) include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no sense of hearing. In terrestrial...
- and seriates – have statocysts, fluid-filled chambers containing a small solid particle or, in a few groups, two. These statocysts are thought to be balance...
- feet report no pressure. However, many malacostracan crustaceans have statocysts, which provide the same sort of information as the balance and motion...
- Mostly these are simple sensory nerve endings, but they also include statocysts and primitive light-sensitive ocelli. Hydroid colonies are usually dioecious...
- A few groups have statocysts - fluid-filled chambers containing a small, solid particle or, in a few groups, two. These statocysts are thought to function...
- free-swimming species of Cubozoa and Scyphozoa possess balance-sensing statocysts, and some have simple eyes. Not all cnidarians reproduce ****ually, but...
- receptors called statocysts can be found in many invertebrate groups but are not contained in the structure of an inner ear. Mollusk statocysts are of a similar...
- diverticula. The sensory organs of gastropods include olfactory organs, eyes, statocysts and mechanoreceptors. Gastropods have no hearing. In terrestrial gastropods...
- ganglia above the oesophagus receive sensory information from the eyes and statocysts, and further ganglia below control the muscles of the mouth, foot, mantle...