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Amphibian Lateral Line Receptors

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Frog Neurobiology

Abstract

The lateral line is a collection of sense organs which are distributed over the skin or in sub-epidermal canals of the head and body of aquatic lower vertebrates. They are found in cyclostomes, fishes, larval amphibians, aquatic adult urodele amphibians and some aquatic anurans including the South African clawed toad, Xenopus laevis. In frogs, as in all anuran amphibians, in which the adults have a mainly terrestrial existence, the lateral line system which is present in the larvae, is lost at metamorphosis. Therefore, if this review was concerned only with the lateral line system of the frog, as it strictly ought to be, there would be little to write about. Instead the review has been expanded and deals with the lateral line system of amphibians. Where no information exists about a particular aspect of the amphibian lateral line system, then where possible, this information has been drawn from studies on the very similar lateral line system of fishes.

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Russell, I.J. (1976). Amphibian Lateral Line Receptors. In: Frog Neurobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66316-1_16

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