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  2. Operculum (fish) - Wikipedia

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    Opercular series in bony fish: operculum (yellow), preoperculum (red), interoperculum (green) and suboperculum (pink) The operculum is a series of bones found in bony fish and chimaeras that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills ; it is also used for respiration and feeding.

  3. Gill slit - Wikipedia

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    Such gills are characteristic of cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays, as well as deep-branching vertebrates such as lampreys. In contrast, bony fishes have a single outer bony gill covering called an operculum. Most sharks and rays have five pairs of gill slits, but a few species have 6 or 7 pairs. Shark gill slits lie in a row behind ...

  4. Fish gill - Wikipedia

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    Chimaeras differ from other cartilagenous fish, having lost both the spiracle and the fifth gill slit. The remaining slits are covered by an operculum, developed from the septum of the gill arch in front of the first gill. [6] The shared trait of breathing via gills in bony fish and cartilaginous fish is a famous example of symplesiomorphy.

  5. Operculum (animal) - Wikipedia

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    An operculum (fish), a flap that covers the gills in bony fishes and chimaeras. The cover that rapidly opens a cnida of a cnidarian such as a jellyfish or a sea anemone. The lid may be a single hinged flap or three hinged flaps arranged like slices of pie. [1] [3] In insects, the operculum is the name for one or more lids covering the tympanal ...

  6. Glossary of ichthyology - Wikipedia

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    The large bone which forms the upper posterior part of the operculum. operculum The bony flap that covers the gills. opercular Pertaining to the operculum. opercular spine A spine projecting from the operculum. orbit The eye socket. origin The most anterior point of a fin base. osseous Bony. ovate Egg-shaped.

  7. Aquatic feeding mechanisms - Wikipedia

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    Though suction feeding can be seen across fish species, those with more cranial kinesis show an increase in suction potential as a result of more complex skull linkages that allow greater expansion of the buccal cavity and thereby create a greater negative pressure. Most commonly, this is achieved by increasing the lateral expansion of the skull.

  8. Ostracoderm - Wikipedia

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    After the appearance of jawed fish (placoderms, acanthodians, sharks, etc.) about 420 million years ago, most ostracoderm species underwent a decline, and the last ostracoderms became extinct at the end of the Devonian period. More recent research indicates that fish with jaws had far less to do with the extinction of the ostracoderms than ...

  9. Fish anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fish. It can be contrasted with fish physiology , which is the study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. [ 1 ]