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The three sections of the kidney develop at different stages, starting with the pronephros and ending with the metanephros.
The pronephros, developing early in embryo formation, is the functional kidney of fish and amphibian larvae.
The tubules empty into a long tube, the Wolffian duct, a remnant of the pronephros.
In reptiles, birds, and mammals, the pronephros is nonfunctional, although even in these animals its duct persists as the mesonephric duct.
The mammalian pronephros is a rudimentary vestigial structure.
The mesonephros develops later and replaces the pronephros as the functional kidney of adult fishes and amphibians and of the embryos of reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Examples from Classical Literature
For a considerable period the pronephros constitutes the sole functional part of the excretory system.
For a long time the pronephros and its duct form the only excretory organs of larval Amphibia.
In both forms the ducts unite behind with the cloaca, and a pronephros of the Teleostean type appears to be developed.
In Amphibia the specialisation of the opening appears to have gone so far that it no longer has any relation to the pronephros.
Eventually however the formation of the mesonephros commences, and is followed by the atrophy of the pronephros.
They are present for a considerable portion of the body cavity, extending backwards from a point shortly behind the pronephros.
The development of the mesonephros does not take place till long after that of the pronephros.
The pronephros has only been observed in Birds, and is very possibly not developed in other Amniota.
The mode of development of the pronephros itself is apparently partly dependent on that of its duct.
The peritoneal funnels of the pronephros appear to be segmentally arranged.
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