Feeding, tentacle and gut morphology in five species of southern African intertidal holothuroids (Echinodermata)

Foster, Gregory G; Hodgson, Alan N

Title: Feeding, tentacle and gut morphology in five species of southern African intertidal holothuroids (Echinodermata)
Creator: Foster, Gregory G
Creator: Hodgson, Alan N
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 1996
Date: 1996
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447392
Identifier: vital:74621
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00445096_757
Description: Compares the structure of the tentacles and digestive tracts of four species of intertidal dendrochirote, and one species of aspidochirote holothuroid by using light, scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Gut contents were sieved to determine the size of the particulate matter ingested. Concludes that there appears to be a relationship between tentacle morphology and the size and type of food ingested. Gut length, the thickness of the digestive epithelial layer and the number of vesicles present in the enterocyte cells of the digestive epithelium also differ in relation to the food ingested. Illustrates with several photographs.
Format: 10 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: African Zoology
Relation: Foster, GG and Hodgson, A.N., 1996. Feeding, tentacle and gut morphology in five species of southern African intertidal holothuroids (Echinodermata). African Zoology, 31(2), pp.70-79
Relation: African Zoology volume 31 number 2 70 79 1996 2224-073X
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