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Hydrostatic Skeleton: Earthworm

Hydrostatic Skeleton: Earthworm
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Description: How an earthworm moves through the soil. Muscles act on coelomic fluid in individual body segments, causing the segments to change shape. A segment narrows when circular muscle ringing it contracts and longitudinal muscle running its length relaxes. The segment widens when circular muscle relaxes and longitudinal muscle contracts.
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