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THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF VERTEBRATES

REPTILES: Caiman


Spectacled caiman digestive tract
Figure 5.4.  Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) digestive tract (Stevens & Hume 1995)  (from CD Chapter 5)


Table 7.2.  Mean digesta retention time in reptiles  (from CD Chapter 7)
Transit time through the gastrointestinal tract of reptiles
Liquid marker was polyethylene glycol or BaSO4.  Particulate markers were segments of polyethylene tubing.


Table 11.4.  (from CD Chapter 11)
Gastrointestinal endocrine cells in the caiman
-- absent, + rare (not detected in every animal), + few (detected in every animal but not every section), ++ moderate, +++numerous. (from Yamada et al. 1987)