SUMMARY(anat14)

Respiratory system û¼ýåÐïͧ  
 

 1. Gill

 

    --- Embryonal development of all vertebrates

               --- Lateral wall of pharynx

 

    --- Anatomical position
          --- Within opercular cavity\ gill chamber\ branchial cavity
 

    --- Respiratory and excretory functions

          --- a. Respiration

                   --- Extraction of O2 \ Excretion of CO2
 

                   --- Other respiratory tissues

                         --- Skin\ Yolk sac\ Fins\ Gill covers

 

               b. Excretion
 

                   (a) Nitrogenous metabolic wastes
                   (b) Exchange of univalent ions

 

 

    1) Path of the respiratory water

 

 

 

 

 

        --- a. Teleosts

             b. Holocephali

             c. Elasmobranchii

 

    2) Internal gill

 

 

 

 

 

 

--- A double row on each bone
 

        (1) Gill arches
 

              --- 5 pairs in left and right side in osteichthyes

                    --- 6¡­7 pairs in some chondricthyes

 

        (2) Gill raker (Branchictenia, »õÆÄ)

 

              --- No gill rakers in certain fish 

              --- Located on the medial lining of branchial arches

              --- Primary and secondary raker

 

              --- Functions of gill raker

 

                  a. Mastication\ Aqusition of foods

 

 

 

                   b. Protection of gill filaments

 

 

 

 

       (3) Gill filaments

 

             --- No filaments in the last arch of osteichthyes

 

             a. Primary lamellae or filaments

                  --- Arrangement in a double-row on each bone

 

             b. Secondary lamella or Lamellae branchiales

 

     2) Pseudogill or pseudobranch

 

         --- No pseudobranch in anguilliformes

 

         --- Separate gill located on the medial surface of the opercle or on the anterior wall of

              hyomandibular cleft

               --- No respiratory function/A few secondary lamella

 

        --- 3 types of pseudobranchs (Birtin's differentiation)

 

 

 

             (1) Free type

             (2) Covered type

             (3) Embedded or submerged type (Cypriniformes)

 

 

    3) Interbranchial septum(Gill septum)

 

        --- Between anterior and posterior filaments of each branchial arch

               --- a. Well-developed interbranchial septum

                    b. Regressive interbranchial septum

 

   4) External gill

 

 

 

 

        --- During the early development stages of some species,  ie., embryonic or larval organs


         --- Function

              --- a. Respiratory

                       --- Often not exclusively

 

                   b. Nourishing the embryo

                       --- (a) From yolk of the egg

                            (b) From special uterine secretions in live-bearing species

 

 

 2. Accessory respiratory organs

 

    1) Organs of aquatic respiration

        --- Young fishes during the gillless phase

              --- a. Skin or body surface
                   b. Primordial fin

                      <--- A thin fold of skin

 

                   c. Gill cover in holocephali

                   d. Vascular network which develops around the yolk sac in embryos and larvae

 

    2) Air-breathing organs

 

       a. Lung(Dipnoi\ Polypteryformes)

        

            --- A primitive type similar to that which existed when the lungs and swimbladders first began to

                 evolve

                  ---> ¨ç Teleostean swimbladder

                        ¨è Tetrapod's lung

 

            --- Dipnoan lung

                  --- Not very efficient in the excretion of CO2, even in recent dipnoi

 

            --- Electric eels (Electrophorus electricus) 

                  --- The oral cavity(From the air)

                         --- Taking-up only 78% of the oxygen which the body requires

                         --- 81% of the CO2 releasing into the water through the skin

 

       b. Swimbladder

            --- Never developed in the agnatha\ the lower gnasthomata, ie., the elasmobranchii and the

                 holocephali

 

       c. Oral and branchial cavities

       d. Gill-appendages\ Branchial papillae\ Special labyrinthine organs

       e. Stomach\ Intestine

 

   [Vasculature of the gill]

 

 

 

    --- 2 kinds of vasculatures

          --- a. Respiratory blood pathway

              b. Non-respiratory blood pathway

 

   1) Respiratory blood vasculature

 

        --- Ventral aorta
               --->Dorsal aorta

 

    2) Non-respiratory blood pathway
 

         --- Efferent branchial artery (or efferent filamental artery)

               ---> Along the long axis of filament

                       ---> Branchial vein (Nutrient vasculature)
 

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