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Studies on respiration in relation to body size and oxygen tension in the pelecypodCongeria sallei recluz

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Studies on respiration and metabolic rate in relation to body size have been carried out for an important fouling molluscCongeria sallei, Recluz. The oxygen consumption varied from 0·038 ml/hr to 0·804 ml/hr depending on the body size. The metabolic rate varied inC. sallei from 6·012 to 0·805 ml/gm/hr, the highest rate being obtained in the smallest animal. The respiration by the animals was found to be proportional to the power of 0·5845 of the body weight and the relation of surface area to metabolism has been thus indicated.

The results on the effect of oxygen tension on the metabolic rate ofC. sallei showed that there was a gradual decrease in the metabolic rate with decrease in oxygen tension upto 2·5 ml/l. Below this level a sudden decline in the metabolic rate was observed. Correlation of results on oxygen tension with the variations observed in the oxygen level of the natural environment has been attempted.

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    K. Mangapathi Rao, P. Ramachandra Raju, S. S. Ganti & N. Kalyanasundaram

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Communicated by Dr. D. V. Bal,f.a.sc.

The pelecypodCongeria sallei Recluz has been renamed asMytilopsis sallei (Recluz) [personal communication Dr Brian Morton, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong].

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Mangapathi Rao, K., Ramachandra Raju, P., Ganti, S.S. et al. Studies on respiration in relation to body size and oxygen tension in the pelecypodCongeria sallei recluz. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 80, 163–171 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050720

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