Tag Archives | Accessory Respiratory Organs of Fishes

Generally adult fishes depended chiefly on pharyngeal gills for aquatic respiration. However, other devices also occur to supplement or replace gill respiration. All such additional respiratory organs, other than gills, are known as accessory respiratory organs. The development of accessory respiratory organs is found mostly in freshwater fishes of tropical region and very rarely in marine fishes. Sometimes the fishes [...]