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250: 47: 39: 290:, appearing as pages in a book, are where gas exchange takes place. These appendages move rhythmically to drive blood in and out of the lamellae and to circulate water over them. Respiration being their main purpose, they can also be used for swimming in young individuals. If they are kept moist, the horseshoe crab can live on land for many hours. 286:) which have five pairs of them, the flap in front of them being the genital operculum which lacks gills. Book gills are flap-like appendages that effect gas exchange within water and seem to have their origin as modified legs. On the inside of each appendage, over 100 thin page-like membranes, 214:
Tetrapulmonata have two pairs of book lungs found on the second and third abdominal segments (Schizomida have lost a pair, and most advanced spiders have replaced at least one of the pairs with trachea). Scorpions have four pairs of book lungs, found on abdominal segments number three, four, five,
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One of the long-running controversies in arachnid evolution is whether the book lung evolved from book gills just once in a common arachnid ancestor, or whether book lungs evolved separately in several groups of arachnids as they came onto land. While the third abdominal segment in Tetrapulmonata
269:. Although they have a similar book-like structure, book gills are external, while book lungs are internal. Both are considered appendages rather than conventional internal organs, as they develop from limb buds before the buds flatten into segmented 139:, have no traces of book lungs and breathe through tracheae or through their body-surfaces only. Gas exchange is performed by the thin walls inside the cavity instead, with their surface area increased by branching into the body as thin tubes called 31: 389:
Scholtz, Gerhard; Kamenz, Carsten (2006). "The book lungs of Scorpiones and Tetrapulmonata (Chelicerata, Arachnida): Evidence for homology and a single terrestrialisation event of a common arachnid ancestor".
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Their number varies from just one pair in most spiders to four pairs in scorpions. The unfolded "pages" (plates) of the book lung are filled with hemolymph. The folds maximize the surface exposed to
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exchanged with the environment. In most species, no motion of the plates is needed to facilitate this kind of respiration.
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fossil lungs are almost indistinguishable from the lungs of modern arachnids, fully adapted to a terrestrial existence.
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The pulmonate arachnids also appears to be the only members of Arachnida where the respiratory pigment
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Pechmann, Matthias; Khadjeh, Sara; Sprenger, Frederik; Prpic, Nikola-Michael (November 2010).
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The origins of tetrapulmonate book lungs and their significance for chelicerate phylogeny
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have book lungs, the scorpions have a pair of sensory organs called pectines instead.
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Kamenz, Carsten; Dunlop, Jason A.; Scholtz, Gerhard; Kerp, Hans; Hass, Hagen (2008).
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The absence or presence of book lungs divides the Arachnida into two main groups:
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In this spider diagram, the position of the book lungs is labelled 1.
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Internal anatomy of a female spider, book lungs shown in pink
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used for atmospheric gas exchange that is present in many
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The oldest book lungs have been recovered from extinct
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The diversity and evolution of chelicerate hemocyanins
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Book gills are still present in the marine arthropod
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arachnids preserved in the 410 million-year-old
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give them an appearance similar to a "folded" book.
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Index

Book lungs



respiration organ
arachnids
scorpions
spiders
respiration
Spider anatomy
lungs
vertebrates
convergent evolution
hemolymph
air
gas
arachnids
mites
harvestmen
tracheae
Tetrapulmonata
whip scorpions
Schizomida
Amblypygi
spiders
scorpions
microwhip scorpions
harvestmen
Acarina
pseudoscorpions

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