. 2019 Dec 6;7:e8125. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8125

Table 1. Measurements of C and K corpuscles isolated from digestive glands of the three species.

Results are expressed as mean ± SEM. N for each group is indicated in italics. Different letters in the same row indicate statistically significant differences between species.

	*Pomacea canaliculata*	*Pomacea scalaris*	*Asolene platae*
C corpuscles
Diameter (µm)	13.8 ± 0.1; 197^a	11.6 ± 0.1; 241^b	16.5 ± 0.2; 161^c
K corpuscles
Length (µm)	31.8 ± 0.4; 161^a	24.3 ± 0.2; 245^b	32.4 ± 0.2; 444^a
Width (µm)	12.8 ± 0.2; 161^a	16.2 ± 0.1; 245^b	19.3 ± 0.2; 444^c
Length/width ratio	2.5 ± 0.05; 161^a	1.5 ± 0.01; 245^b	1.7 ± 0.02; 444^c