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- Title
The Olfactory System in the Pacific Hagfishes Eptatretus stoutii, Eptatretus deani, and Myxine circifrons.
- Authors
Theisen, Birgit
- Abstract
In front of the olfactory organ in the northeastern Pacific hagfishes Eptatretus stoutii, E. deani, and Myxine circifrons there is a valve that may function to direct water in between the olfactory laminae. In Myxine circifrons the well developed valve is supposed to act alone, whereas the smaller valve in the two species of Eptatretus studied is supposed to act together with the horizontal extensions of the median olfactory lamina. No significant differences were found between the investigated species by ultrastructural examination. In the olfactory epithelium the supporting cells are provided with microvilli and generally contain a great amount of light secretory granules. Both ciliated olfactory receptor cells and microvillous olfactory receptor cells are present. The cilia show a 9 + 0 arrangement of the microtubules with a tendency for a dislocation of one pair of the microtubules toward the center of the cilium. These remarkable features of the olfactory receptor cells, not yet seen in other vertebrates, appear to be a character common to the myxinoid cyclostomes.
- Subjects
PACIFIC hagfish; MICROTUBULES; EPITHELIUM; TISSUES; VERTEBRATES; HAGFISHES; OLFACTORY nerve; FISH behavior
- Publication
Acta Zoologica, 1976, Vol 57, p167
- ISSN
0001-7272
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1463-6395.1976.tb00224.x