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A highly complex invertebrate lung

The gill chambers of the soldier crab Mictyris longicarpus

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    D. P. Maitland

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I thank Dad U.S.A. for translating German literature, P.D. Maitland, H.-O. Nalbach, A.O. Richards, D.C. Sandeman and J. Zeil for valuable discussion, D. Hair for measuring gill areas and T. Frecker, R. Holliday, K. Kool and R. Trendall for help with crab collecting. This work was supported by a University of N.S.W. post-graduate scholarship to the author and an Australian Research Grants Scheme grant to D.C. Sandeman.

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Maitland, D.P. A highly complex invertebrate lung. Naturwissenschaften 74, 293–295 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366420

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