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    Marine animals like sharks and invertebrates regulate water and salt balance to maintain osmotic balance with their environment. They gain water from their food and metabolize excess salt through specialized cells and organs like kidneys that excrete chlorine or sulfate ions. Some marine invertebrates like mosquito larvae also drink sea water in large volumes daily and secrete salts through specialized rectal cells to overcome the excess salt load.

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    Marine animals like sharks and invertebrates regulate water and salt balance to maintain osmotic balance with their environment. They gain water from their food and metabolize excess salt through specialized cells and organs like kidneys that excrete chlorine or sulfate ions. Some marine invertebrates like mosquito larvae also drink sea water in large volumes daily and secrete salts through specialized rectal cells to overcome the excess salt load.

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    Marine animals like sharks and invertebrates regulate water and salt balance to maintain osmotic balance with their environment. They gain water from their food and metabolize excess salt through specialized cells and organs like kidneys that excrete chlorine or sulfate ions. Some marine invertebrates like mosquito larvae also drink sea water in large volumes daily and secrete salts through specialized rectal cells to overcome the excess salt load.

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    Water and Salt Balance in

    Aquatic Environment &


    Marine Fish and
    Invertebrates
    Water and Salt Balance in
    Aquatic Environment

    Regulation of water in aquatic environments


    derived from the modification of the water
    balance equation in terrestrial

    Wi = Wd - Ws Wo
    Marine Fish and Invertebrates

    What do marine animals, such as sharks to


    gain isosmotic with the external
    environment?
    The difference in concentration can be
    maintained by active transport by eating
    some energy.
    However drinking sea water will add salt
    There are two ways to overcome the excess
    salt on the sharks:
    1. Cells chlorite
    2. Kidneys excrete sulfate
    It also occurs in the genus Aedes mosquito
    larvae that live in sea water.
    Mosquitoes are drinking sea water in the
    amount of 130% - 240% of the volume of the
    body / day
    Mosquitoes secrete salts in urine using
    specialized cells in the posterior rectal

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