Osmoconformers Flashcards
1
Q
What fish are osmoconformers?
A
- hagfish
2
Q
Hagfish blood is _____ with seawater
A
- isosmotic (high NaCl like SW)
3
Q
What kind of kidney do osmoconformers have?
A
- mesonephric
4
Q
What does it mean to have a mesonephric kidney?
A
- urine not equal to blood composition
- glomerular filtrate (gets rid of divalent ions)
5
Q
Osmoconformers have ionic secretions in _____. What are they high in?
A
- slime
- Na, Mg, SO4, K
6
Q
Where are ionocytes in osmoconformers? What do they excrete? What is not excreted?
A
- gills
- H+ and HCO3 excretion
- not NaCl
