Digestive System of the Earthworm
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| Food |
Decaying leaves, organic matter mixed with soil |
| Mouth |
Terminal |
| 1st - 3rd segments |
Muscular Pharynx and Buccal cavity |
| 5th - 7th segments |
Oesophagus |
| 8th - 9th segments |
Muscular gizzard grinds the food |
| 9th - 14th segments |
Stomach (calciferous glands in the stomach neutralise humic acid of humus) |
| 15th segment to the last segment |
Intestine |
| 26th segment |
A pair of short conical intestinal caecae |
| 26th - 35th segments |
Typhlosole (median fold of the dorsal wall); increase the surface area for effective absorption |
| Last segment |
Anus |
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