Morphometry of the digestive glands of terrestrial mollusk Cornu aspersum (Gastropoda, Helicidae)

• Date: 2020
• Keywords: keywords
• Main Authors: Tybinka, A. M., Zaitsev, O. O., Zakrevska, M. V., Blishch, H. I., Shchebentovska, O. M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2020
• Online Access: https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/19
• Journal Title: Zoodiversity

Histological and histochemical techniques were used to study specifics of parenchyma and stroma in digestive gland of Cornu aspersum. The parenchyma had 28.8 digestive ducts/mm2 on average (CV = 11.2 %) round-to-oval, with average cross-section of 27700.9 µm2 (CV = 28.1 %). The duct are...