What is cutaneous respiration?
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Respiration through skin is called cutaneous respiration.
This type of respiration is seen in some vertebrates and invertebrates.
Main example is frog
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- The skin of frog provides an extensive surface for exchange of gases.
- It is thin richly supplied with blood and kept moist by the mucus and water. The cutaneous respiration is always carried out.
- It is practically the only mode of respiration when the frog is under water.
- Dissolved oxygen in the water is exchanged through the moist surface of the skin by diffusion.
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