THE AIR-PASSAGES OF THE DUGONG LUNG
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Cells Tissues Organs
- Vol. 48 (1-2) , 95-107
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000141828
Abstract
The lung of Dugong with its extraordinary vesicles as respiratory units leads air to the vesicles by a system of tubes and tubules which, however, do not form a typical bronchial tree commonly met with in mammals. Nevertheless, the tubular system indicates that the Dugong-lung is mammalian in nature. The strange air-conducting system may remind an early stage in the evolution of the mammalian lung.Keywords
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