水管を持たない二枚貝の外套腔への入水と出水

Inspiring and Expiring into/from Mantle Cavity in Suspension- feeding　Bivalves without the Siphon

Creators Yamamoto Ken-ichi

Creators Handa Takeshi

Creators Kayano Naoto

The ventilations were examined on the Pen-shell, Atrina (Servatrina) lischkeana, the Japanese oyster, Crassostrea gigas, the Rock-oyster, C. nippona, the Densely lamellated oyster, Ostrea denselamelloosa, the Mediterranean blue mussel, Mytilus galloprovincialis, the Asian brown mussel, Modiolus metcalfei, by recording simultanenously the water-volumes inspired and expired through mantle cavity. The water-volumes in those animals synchronously changed. The results exceedingly proved that the inspiration and the expiration synchronized when the suspension-feeding bivalves ventilated.

[ISSN]0370-9361