Experiments involving the recording of impulses in sensory nerves in the appendages of a scorpion and an amblypygid show that the slit sensilla (lyriform organs) of these arachnids are mechanoreceptors, sensitive to strains in the cuticle and analogous to the campaniform sensilla of insects.
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J. W. S. Pringle (1955) studied this question.
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