Table I
Comparative Data on Ventilation Volume, Utilization, and Oxygen Consumption, Including the
Changes Produced in Response to Low Oxygen Concentrations and Exercise
Oxygen
content of
inspired Ventilation
Stroke
Breathing UtilizaOxygen
Experimental
water
volume
volume
rate
tion
consumption
animal
(&/liter) (ml/kg/min)
(ml/kg)
(No./min) (%)
(ml/kg/min)
Reference
Scyliorhinus stellaris Mean
(16"C, 2180 g)
Range
Squalus suckleyi
(1 1"C, 3500 g)
Eel, Anguilla
Trout,, Salmo
Trout, Salmo
(17"C, 400 g)
(lO"C, 900 g)
(15"C, 400 g)
6.7
6.5
6.6
2.1
7.6
2.1
6 . 8
1.8
Elasmobranch
195
4.8
41
500
124-322
Teleosts (Ozygeninduced changes)
89
5.6
16
762
23.8
32
150
1.8
82
519
5 . 2
100
556
6.9
80
3350
31.3
107
62
25
73-60
82
53
80
63
35
18
0.64
Baumgarten-Schumann
0.71
Lenfant and Johansen
(1966)
0.51-1.02
and Piiper (1968)
0.48
van Dam (1938)
0.83
0.90
van Dam (1938)
0.67
1.27
Holeton and Randall
1.05
(1967b)
0