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  2. Fish gill - Wikipedia

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    Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under gill covers (operculum) on both sides of the pharynx (throat). Gills are tissues that are like short threads, protein structures called filaments. These filaments have many functions including ...

  3. Gill - Wikipedia

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    The gills are composed of comb-like filaments, the gill lamellae, which help increase their surface area for oxygen exchange. [5] When a fish breathes, it draws in a mouthful of water at regular intervals. Then it draws the sides of its throat together, forcing the water through the gill openings, so it passes over the gills to the outside.

  4. Aquatic respiration - Wikipedia

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    Each gill arch has two rows (hemibranchs) of gill filaments; Each gill filament has many lamellae; In osteichthyes, the gills contain 4 gill arches on each side of the head, two on each side for chondrichthyes or seven gill baskets on each side of the fish's head in lampreys. In fish, the long bony cover for the gill (the operculum) can be used ...

  5. Siphon (mollusc) - Wikipedia

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    The water is circulated by the action of the gills. Usually water enters the mantle cavity through the inhalant siphon, moves over the gills, and leaves through the exhalant siphon. The water current is utilized for respiration, but also for filter feeding, excretion, and reproduction.

  6. Fish physiology - Wikipedia

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    The gills are composed of comb-like filaments, the gill lamellae, which help increase their surface area for oxygen exchange. [10] When a fish breathes, it draws in a mouthful of water at regular intervals. Then it draws the sides of its throat together, forcing the water through the gill openings, so that it passes over the gills to the outside.

  7. Branchial arch - Wikipedia

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    Gill arches supporting the gills in a pike. Branchial arches or gill arches are a series of paired bony/cartilaginous "loops" behind the throat (pharyngeal cavity) of fish, which support the fish gills. As chordates, all vertebrate embryos develop pharyngeal arches, though the eventual fate of these arches varies between taxa.

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  9. Branchial heart - Wikipedia

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    Branchial hearts are always in pairs located at the base of the gills. Each branchial heart consists of a single chamber. Each branchial heart consists of a single chamber. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They pump blood through the gills via the afferent branchial veins.