Oxygen consumption and osmoregulation in the shanny,Blennius pholis

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONIt is well known that littoral teleosts, such asBlennius pholis, are on occasions subjected to considerable and abrupt variations in the salinity of their environment. Smith (1930) constructed a tentative model of the processes involved in the osmoregulation of teleosts; quantification of the various components of the Smith model has been extensive, but little attention has been paid to the respiratory stresses undergone by teleosts in fluctuating salinities.