Abstract

While diving or swimming at the surface Pelamis platurus respires aquatically through its skin, removing oxygen from water at rates up to 33% of total standard oxygen uptake and excreting carbon dioxide into water at rates up to 94% of standard oxygen consumption. Aquatic respiration assists the snake in feeding, augments its diving by providing supplemental oxygen and preventing respiratory acidosis through the release of carbon dioxide, and provides a site for the equilibration of inert gases to prevent caisson disease.

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