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Serpula, a marine annelid worm, is the only animal known to possess two respiratory pigments in its blood, namely, chlorocruorin and hæmoglobin1.
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Fox, H. Oxygen Affinities of Respiratory Blood Pigments in Serpula. Nature 168, 112 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168112a0
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