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THE homologues of the adrenal or suprarenal bodies in teleostean fishes have long been the subject of discussion. In 1884, Weldon (Quart. Jour. Micr. Sci., 1884, 24, 171–182) thought that the adrenals were frequently absent from this group, and that the lymphoid head-kidney took their place in these cases. This theory was refuted by one of us in 1896 (Swale Vincent, Proc. Birm. Nat. Hist. and Phil. Soc., 10, Part 1, 1896). In the meantime it was commonly assumed that the pale, spherical bodies, near the caudal end of the kidney, on its ventral or dorsal surface, were the homologues of the adrenal bodies in higher vertebrates (Swale Vincent, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 14, Part 3, 1897). The corpuscles of Stannius, as these bodies were named, appeared, in fact, to have roughly the structure of the inter-renal of the elasmobranch, and the cortex of the adrenal of higher vertebrates.
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VINCENT, S., CURTIS, F. The Homologues of the Adrenal or Suprarenal Bodies in Teleostean Fishes. Nature 119, 83–84 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119083b0
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