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Question
List three features that characterise bony fishes.
Solution
- These fishes have bony endoskeleton.
- The skin is covered by ganoid, cycloid or ctenoid scales.
- Gills are covered by an operculum.
- They are ammonotelic.
- They have mesonephric kidneys.
- External fertilization is seen.
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