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HÆMOGLOBIN has only recently been found in free-1iving copepods. Munro Fox1 found that certain mud-dwelling harpacticoids contained this respiratory pigment, while allied species living in moss or open water lacked it. The correlation between hæmoglobin and habitat can now be extended by the discovery of hæmoglobin in Elaphoidella gracilis, a species which inhabits burrows in decaying aquatic vegetation. The red pigment in this species is easily visible under the microscope, and its identity was established spectroscopically.
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GREEN, J. Hæmoglobin and the Habitat of the Harpacticoid Copepod Elaphoidella gracilis (Sars). Nature 183, 1834 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831834a0
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