Dictionary of Ichthyology
gall bladder = small sac associated with the liver used for storing the bile which is used in digestion. It opens by 4-6 ducts through the dorsal anterior wall of the expanded duodenum, posterior to the pyloric caeca.
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gall bladder = small sac associated with the liver used for storing the bile which is used in digestion. It opens by 4-6 ducts through the dorsal anterior wall of the expanded duodenum, posterior to the pyloric caeca. |
| Guts of Protopterus from Kingsley's "Textbook of Vertebrate Zoology, 1906. C = caecum, G = gall bladder, HV = hepatic vein, L = liver, O = oesophagus, OD = oviduct, PV = pyloric valve, R = rectum, RD = renal (mesonephric) duct, S = stomach, SP = spleen, SV = spiral valve, V = vent. Photograph by Brian W. Coad. |