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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

MAMMALS: Bandicoot


Short-nosed bandicoot
Short-nosed bandicoot (photo by Dr Kerri Slifka)    < go to CD


Short-nosed bandicoot digestive tract
Short-nosed bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)


Table 7-4  (CD Table 8.5)
Disaccahridase activity in prototherian and metatherian mammals
All data on adult specimens are expressed in µmoles substrate/minute per gram (wet weight) of mucosa.  (modified from Vonk and Western 1984)