pointwise characteristics of shark
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--Sharks are heavy fishes possessing neither lungs nor swim bladders.
--Their skeleton is made up of cartilage rather than bone.
--Most sharks keep moving to breathe and to stay afloat.
--They have pointed snouts.
--They have gills to breathe as a respiratory organ.
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Shark :
- Shark is called Scolidon sorrakowah in scientific language.
- Kingdom : Animalia
- Phylum : Chordata
- Subphylum : Vertebrata
- Class : Chondrochthyes
- Genus : Scolidon
- Species : sorrakowah
Some important characteristics :
- They are widely found in marine water.
- They attack their prey with the help of their powerful jaws.
- The body is long, laterally compresses, spindle shaped and tapered at the end.
- The body canbe distinguished into head, tail and trunk.
- The ventral surface colour is pale and the lateral and dorsal surface colour is dark grey.
- The skin is covered with exoskeleton of placoid and dermal scales.
- The head is dorsoventrally flattened.
- The head had a large pair of circular eyes at the sides and a mouth ventrally crescentic.
- 5 pairs of gill slits present behind the eyes.
- Between the pelvic fins, a cloacal aperture is present.
- Male sharks have pair of claspers.
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