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Where is a shrimp's heart located?

Question #33289. Asked by mandy.
Last updated Jan 08 2024.

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A shrimp's heart is in its head. This web site gives fully labelled diagrams showing all the internal organs.

link http://heydidyouknowthat.blogspot.com/2011/11/shrimps-heart-is-in-its-head.html



Response last updated by gtho4 on Jan 08 2024.
May 08 2003, 10:56 PM
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The heart is normally tubular and usually consists of a longitudinal blood vessel lying in the midline dorsally.

A shrimps heart is located on its head. If we base it on the exact anatomy of a shrimp, its heart is located on its thorax just after the head, but both the head and the thorax are covered with a single exoskeleton only, that is why the shrimps thorax can be mistaken as still part of the shrimps head. But in general, we see a shrimp divided only into 2 parts, the head and the tail, we see no thorax in it.

link http://onlineroom.blogspot.com/2007/10/interesting-heart-of-shrimp.html

Response last updated by CmdrK on Aug 27 2016.
Dec 19 2007, 2:08 PM
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