Receptors -

1. Chemoreceptors
Olfactory receptors - smell
Gustatory receptors - taste

2. Thermoreceptors
End bulb of Krause in skin - cold
Ruffini's organs in skin - heat

3. Mechanoreceptors

Proprioceptors (eg. Golgi Mazzoni) - sense of position of body parts

Algesireceptors (eg. Free nerve endings) - pain

Tangoreceptors (eg. Meissner's corpuscle, Merkel's disc) - touch, pressure

Phonoreceptors (eg. Organ of corti) - sound waves
Statoreceptors (eg. cristae and maculae) - balance

Rheoreceptors (eg. neuromast cells/lateral line sense organs in fishes) - pressure, water currents

4  Photoreceptors (retina) - light

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