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Chapter CXLIV: Section 13: Figure 9 gives a similar diagram of a later stage, but here

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the blastopore is closed. An epiblastic tucking-in at st., the stomodaeum pre-figures the mouth; pr., the proctodaeum, is a similar posterior invagination which will become the anus. Y., the yolk, is evidently much absorbed. Figure 10 is a young tadpole, seen from the side. The still unabsorbed yolk in the ventral wall of the mesentery gives the creature a big belly. Its mouth is suctorial at this stage, and behind it is a sucker (s.) by which the larvae attach themselves to floating reeds and wood, as shown in the three black figures below.

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Text Book of Biology, Part 1: VertebrataChapter CXLIV: Section 13: Figure 9 gives a similar diagram of a later stage, but here

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