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Peritrophic Membranes in the Caridea (Crustacea Decapoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

G. R. Forster
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory

Extract

A thin membrane surrounding the faeces of many of the Caridea has proved to be chitinous. The membrane is not secreted by the fore-gut, but almost certainly by the anterior part of the intestine, and is therefore a peritrophic membrane sensu stricto.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1953

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