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The tidal rhythm and action of the digestive system of the lamellibranch Lasaea rubra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. E. Morton
J. E. Morton
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Department of Zoology, Queen Mary College, University of London
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It has been well established that some of the features of the feeding and digestive process in molluscs are rhythmic in character. Notably Hirsch (1915, 1917, 1931) has demonstrated a rhythmic periodicity of secretion in the salivary glands and digestive glands of some carnivorous Gastropoda, and Krijgsman (1925, 1928) has done similar work on the land pulmonate Helix. In all of these animals—and in cephalopods, too, where there is a more elaborate nervous control of secretion—discontinuous feeding is the rule. In the other and perhaps larger category of molluscs—those continuously feeding on fine particles—the central mechanism of the gut is the crystalline style, or its forerunner the protostyle. Here the need is, in Yonge's words (1937), ‘to the extent to which they depend on extracellular enzymes for digestion, continuous secretion’. In Yonge's view, now classical, the style was regarded as ‘an ideal mechanism for the continuous liberation of small quantities of an amylolytic enzyme’. Graham (1939), in his work on style-bearing gastropods, showed that the style is in general confined to animals with a continuous feeding habit, whether by ciliary means or by using the radula to graze on and rasp off fine particles. It is known that style secretion stops and the style is frequentiy dissolved when animals are removed from the water and cease feeding (see Yonge, 1925).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , October 1956 , pp. 563 - 586
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1956

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