Exploring Our Fluid Earth
Teaching Science as Inquiry
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Cartilaginous fishes are so different from all the other fishes that they are in their own class—the Chondrichthyes. Although cartilaginous fishes have many features in common with the so-called bony fishes, they also have some important differences. SF Fig. 4.1 shows the external anatomy of a cartilaginous shark, and Fig. 4.9 shows the external anatomy of a typical bony fish.
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