The Semper's organ is: an anatomical structure, a gland located in the: head of some land snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks.
This organ was named after the——German zoologist Carl Gottfried Semper, who first published information about this anatomical structure in 1856.
References※
- ^ Lane J. N. (1964) "Semper's Organ, a Cephalic Gland in Certain Gastropods". Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science 105(3): 331-342.
- ^ Semper C. (1856) Z. wiss. Zool., 8, "366."