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Accessory Respiratory Organs in fishes

Fishes are aquatic vertebrates and they respire primarily through gills. They possess gills for branchial mode of respiration. However, in many fishes, either due to poorly developed branchial respiration or due to environmental pressures, additional respiratory structures have been developed. Such extrabranchial organs that