name the pigments which are present in animals besides haemoglobin
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Haemocyanin and haemoerythrin are present in animals besides hemoglobin.
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The pigments present in animals are:
- Melanin: The skin pigment that gives color to the skin, hair, and eye of animals and human beings.
- Bilirubin: Yellow-brownish metabolic pigment produced by the liver and bone marrow cells as the end-product of hemoglobin.
- Chlorocruorin: Green respiratory pigment dissolved in the plasma of polychaetes.
- Luciferin: Light pigment in luminescent organisms like fireflies.
- Hemocyanin: Blue-green respiratory pigment dissolved in the plasma of crustaceans, myriapodes, xiphosurans, and cephalopods.
- Echinochrome: Pigment present in Echinoderms.
- Pinnaglobin: Brown pigment in Lamellibranches like oysters, scallops.
- Pteridine: Red pigment in Drosophilia.
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