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Autor:
Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
Fisheries. 7:2-10
The Lake Nicaragua Rio San Juan System harbors two classical examples of freshwater adaptation by elasmobranchs, the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, and the largetooth sawfish, Pristis perotteti. The bull shark is heavily concentrated around the riv
Publikováno v:
Environmental Biology of Fishes. 7:341-347
The Rio Bayano in eastern Panama is one of many tropical rivers in which bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) and largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti) have been known to occur. Since both species can osmoregulate in fresh water throughout life, theore
Publikováno v:
Environmental Biology of Fishes. 9:3-24
Observations of reproductive features and body measurements were made on wild-caught, freshwater stingrays, Potamotrygon circularis and P. motoro, from the Amazon drainage of western Brazil and southern Colombia. Further observations were made in Det
Publikováno v:
Environmental Biology of Fishes. 23:299-314
The number of venomous caudal spines and their length and position relative to one another were determined in seven species of South American freshwater rays (Potamotrygonidae) and eight marine or euryhaline species of four families from the Caribbea
Autor:
Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
Environmental Biology of Fishes. 7:207-228
Of a total of 377 Pristis perotteti tagged in the Lake Nicaragua-Rio San Juan System, 214 (56.8% were recovered. Eighty were recovered at the original tagging site; four moved downstream the full length of the river; and 127 tagged at the source of t
Publikováno v:
The Biological Bulletin. 154:508-516
1. Contrary to some reports, a rectal gland is present in strictly freshwater stingrays of South American rivers (Potamotrygon spp.). 2. The gland has the location and histological features of the salt-secreting rectal gland of marine elasmobranchs,
Autor:
Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
Physiological Zoology. 31:16-23
than passing mention is the blood. Existing data on blood volume of poikilothermous vertebrates have been reviewed by Martin (1950) and Prosser and Weinstein (1950). Sturkie (1954) has summarized data on birds. The literature on the blood volume of m
Autor:
Arthur Svihla, Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
Ecology. 24:374-381
Even the most casual observer has noticed that the various species of amphibians do not frequent the same type of surrouindings. A student of ecology finds that practically every species of amphibian has a distinctive habitat, and that the habitats r
Autor:
Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
The Biological Bulletin. 120:238-254
1. The major body fluid compartments were measured in two species of fresh-water Chondrostei, two species of fresh-water Holostei, three species of fresh-water Teleostei and seven species of marine teleosts. These were compared with previous measurem
Autor:
Thomas B. Thorson
Publikováno v:
Physiological Zoology. 37:395-399