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TABLE VII (Continued)
Classification
Sanguinolaria olivacea
(161)
Family Solenidae (razor
shell clams)
Solen gouldi (1S8)
Family Myidae
Mya arenaria (sand
clam) (138)
Class Cephalopoda
Subclass Dibranchia (Coleoidea)
Order Sepoidea
Family Sepiidae
Sepia officinalis (94)
Order Teuthoidea
Family Ommastrephidae
Ommastrefes sloani
pacificus (166)
Todarus sagittatus (170)
Order Octopoda
Family Octopodidae
Octopus vulgaris (7, 171)
Unsaponifiable
fraction
of fat
(%)
32
42
20
—
—
—
—
Sterol of
unsaponifiable
fraction
(%)
52
53
—
—
36
—
—
Sterol or
m.p. of steryl
acetate
137-138
143-144
130-131
Cholesterol
Cholesterol
Cholesterol
Cholesterol
Δ
5 '
7 -
Sterols
in
tu re
(%)
2.3
5.2
—
—
—
—
—
a Also considerable quantities of diunsaturated sterols.
6 Although the data are rather incomplete this species has been included to point to
the unusual composition of its sterol mixture.
c Poriferasterol, clionasterol, ß-sitosterol, A
5,7 -sterols, and* others.
d Brassicasterol, cholesterol, A
5,7 -sterols, and others.
e "Pincsterol."
f "Conchasterol."
0 "Ostreasterol" (chalinasterol).
h 24-Methylenecholesterol.
* ' Tectosterol."
*' 'Shakosterol.''
k "Meretristerol."
' Contains corbisterol.
m Freshwater species.
IX. Sterols of Echinoderms
A considerable, instructive body of data has become available during the past decade on the sterols of animals encompassed by this
phylum. Representatives of all its five classes and of the majority of
their orders have been investigated. Their total number and their representation of various climatic and geographic zones are more than
adequate to lend significance to the data so far obtained. Table IX lists
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