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VIII. PROVITAMINS D AND VITAMINS D 



TABLE 4 

 Distribution of Vitamins D in Various Fish Oils" 



Source of oil 



Zoological name 



Potency, 

 I.U. per g. 



Blue-fin tuna, liver 



Broadbill swordfish, liver 



Yellow-fin tuna, liver 



Black sea bass, liver 



Boccaccio (rockfish), liver 



Red rockfish, liver 



Black rockfish (priest fish), liver 



China rockfish, liver 



"Ling cod," liver 



ChinooE (king) salmon, liver 



Halibut, liver 



Rabbitfish (burrfish), liver 



Striped rockfish (reina), liver 



Starry flounder, liver 



Boston (Atlantic) mackerel, liver 



Sablefish, liver 



Atlantic pufferfish, liver 



Chum (dog) salmon, liver 



Black horse (blue sucker), mesentery 



Greenland halibut, liver 



Rex sole, liver 



Pacific sand-dab, liver 



Cod, liver 



Herring, entire body 



Lemon sole (Georges Bank flounder), 

 liver 



Sardine (pilchard), entire body 



Goosefish (sea devil), liver 



Pollack liver 



Menhaden, entire body 



Shark, liver 



Salmon, trimmings 



Greenland halibut, body, minus liver 



Big skate, liver 



Dogfish (Pacific), liver 



Flathead (muddy) catfish, body 



Golden perch (fresh-water drum), mes- 

 entery 



Buffalo, mesentery 



Haddock, liver 



Channel catfish (spotted), mesentery 



Spiny dogfish (Atlantic), liver 



Capelin, entire body 



Ratfish, liver 



Gray sole (witch flounder), liver 



Sturgeon (Great Lakes), liver 



C. E. Bills, Physiol. Revs., 15, 1-97 (1935), p. 13. 



