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The Statocysts of Squid

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Squid as Experimental Animals

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Cephalopods, especially squids, are the most swift-moving of all the aquatic invertebrates. Any such swift-moving animal requires sensory devices for proper spatial control. No wonder then that cephalopods — during the course of evolution and probably in competition with fish (Packard, 1972) — developed sophisticated sense organs, the statocysts, that provide the animals with information about their attitudes and movements in space. Among all aquatic invertebrates, these sense organs reach the highest level of complexity in octopod and decapod cephalopods, with receptor systems for the detection of both linear (gravity) and angular accelerations (Budelmann, 1980, 1988).

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  1. Marine Biomedical Institute and Department of Otolaryngology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, 77550, USA

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    John M. Arnold

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Budelmann, B.U. (1990). The Statocysts of Squid. In: Gilbert, D.L., Adelman, W.J., Arnold, J.M. (eds) Squid as Experimental Animals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2489-6_19

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