ABSTRACT
In a recent paper (Wells and Wells, 1989) evidence was presented indicating that Octopus vulgaris takes up water and salts through the digestive gland appendages, the so-called ‘pancreas’. Animals with the digestive gland ducts ligated lost weight at around 11 % of the body mass per day and died after about 48 h. Animals with the ducts exteriorised, leaving a sufficient length to perform peristalsis, did not lose weight.
© 1990 by Company of Biologists
1990
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