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List five characteristic features of fishes.
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Solution
- Fishes are poikilothermic, whose internal temperature varies, considerably.
- The body has a covering of scales.
- Body muscles are arranged into segments called myotomes.
- The body is differentiated into head, trunk and tail.
- Respiration is done by 5 to7 pairs of gills, which are covered by an operculum or sometimes maybe naked.
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