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Table 2 Comparison of oxygen carrying capacities

From: Blue blood on ice: modulated blood oxygen transport facilitates cold compensation and eurythermy in an Antarctic octopod

Species

Oxygen carrying capacity (mmol L −1 )

Source

Megaleledone setebos

1.86

[33]

Octopus macropus

1.60

[55]

Pareledone charcoti

1.58 (1.38-1.77, 14)

This study

Enteroctopus dofleini

1.36

[56]

Octopus pallidus

1.13 (0.98-1.29, 10)

This study

Eledone moschata

1.08 (0.94-1.22, 10)

This study

Octopus vulgaris

0.61

[12]

Red blooded Antarctic fishes

1.77 (1.44-2.09, 11)

[8]

  1. Values are listed in descending order. Numbers in brackets indicate 95% confidence intervals and samples size n, when available. Oxygen carrying capacities of red blooded Antarctic fishes were calculated from their haemoglobin content, based on a molecular weight of 66 kDa [57], and averaged for 11 species.
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