Question

What animals are osmoconformers?

Answer 1

Osmoconformers:

1. Osmoconformers are organisms that maintain their internal fluids iso-osmotic to their environment.
2. That means they maintain an internal salinity similar to their ambient conditions.
3. Most marine invertebrates including starfish, crabs, jellyfish, lobsters, sea squirts, and scallops are osmoconformers.
4. The survival of these organisms is thus contingent on their external osmotic environment remaining relatively constant.
5. Some osmoconformers are classified as euryhaline, meaning they can survive in a broad range of external osmolarities.