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Salinity Tolerance and Permeability to Water of the Starfish Asterias Rubens L.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

John Binyon
John Binyon
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Royal Holloway College, London
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Evidence is presented to suggest that the salinity tolerance of the adult North Sea Asterias rubens is around 23‰, whereas that of the Baltic Sea animals is 8‰. This, together with other evidence outlined, is thought to be sufficient reason to justify the use of the term ‘physiological race’ where these two populations are concerned.

Adult A. rubens from the North Sea is incapable of any degree of weight regulation in diluted media within the ecological temperature range, size or state of the breeding cycle.

Similarly, it is incapable of any osmotic regulation and it is suggested that the two main coelomic cavities constitute an osmotic unity.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1961 , pp. 161 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1961

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