Fishtails

“Diagrams of some principal forms of tails in fishes. A, protocercal fin (as in Polypterus); B, heterocercal (as in Sharks); C, homocercal (as in most Teleosts); D, homocercal (as in Amia).” -Galloway, 1915

Keywords

bowfin, fishtails, fish tail, potocercal fin, Polypterus fin, heterocercal fin, shark fin, homocercal fin, Teleost fin, ray fin, amia fin

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Fish Anatomy

Source

Thomas Walton Galloway Textbook of Zoology (Philadelphia, PA: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1915)

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