Fatty Oils of Aquatic Inverteb-rates.XVI-XVII XVII. Fatty Oils from One Species of the Ophiuroidea, Three Species of the Asteroidea and Three Species of the Loricata with a Particular Reference to Their Sterol Components.

Lipids: Their Distribution and Metabolism

“…Since Takagi and Toyama (1956) reported for L. japonica a ratio of di-and triunsaturated fatty acids to tetra-and pentaunsaturated ones larger than for other aquatic animals, only one article on fatty acids in chitons has appeared. Johns et al (1980), in a food web investigation, studied in detail the fatty acid composition of various organs of Ponerplax costata.…”