Organs Or Taste
animals
ORGANS or TASTE. - Like almost all other animals the Crustacea select their food, showing decided preference for particular kinds; this selection is doubtless actuated by two, senses, smell-and taste. Whether we are correct in assigning to the inner pair of antenne the duties of the olfactory organ or not, it cannot be doubted that the sense of taste is distributed over that portion of the tegumentary membrane which lines the interior of the mouth and esophagus, but there is no modification of these parts which needs to be specially noticed here.

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