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What is a statocyst?

What is a statocyst? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A balance organ present in some aquatic invertebrates, consisting of a sac-like structure containing a statolith and numerous innervated setae.
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The statocyst is protected by a transparent dome made of long, immobile cilia.
When the cilia beat, the effective stroke is toward the statocyst, so that the animal normally swims oral end first.
The appearance of larval structures, such as the velum, statocyst, left and right digestive diverticula, eyespots, and propodium was recorded.
Many sensory cells and organs are concentrated in the antennae, and a statocyst is found at the base of each antenna.
Statocyst located in antero-ventral region of pedal ganglia.
Then the shaking causes the snails statocyst to release GABA, which binds to the neuron.

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