English: Diagram showing the position of the coxal glands of a scorpion, Buthus australis, Lin., in relation to the legs, diaphragm (entosternal flap), and the gastric caeca.
1 to 6, The bases of the six prosomatic limbs.
A, prosomatic gastric gland (sometimes called salivary).
B, Coxal gland.
C, Diaphragm of Newport = fibrous flap of the entosternum.
D, Mesosomatic gastric caeca (so-called liver).
E, Alimentary canal. (From Ray Lankester, Quart. Journ. Micr. Sci., vol. xxiv. N.S. p. 152.)
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