
%0 Journal Article
%A Edmonds, SJ 
%T The Catabolism of Nitrogen Compounds in <I>Dendrostomun cymodoceae</I> Edmonds (Sipunculoidea)
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1957/05/01
%V 8
%N 2
%P 131-135
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9570131
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF9570131 
%X The total non-protein nitrogen in the excretory products of fasting specimens of Dendrostomum cymodoceae Edmonds was found to be 1.18-1.40 mg N/100 g wet wt./24 hr. Of the total nitrogen, 83-90 per cent. was excreted as ammonia nitrogen, 4-6 percent, as urea nitrogen, 0-4 percent. as amino acid nitrogen, and none as uric acid; 89-94 percent. of the nitrogen was thus accounted for. The results are compared with the corresponding values obtained by other workers for Sipunculus nudus and some other invertebrates. 
