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The Hearts of Fishes

Fish hearts are S-shaped and four-chambered with, from behind forwards, sinus venosus, atrium, ventricle and either a bulbus or conus leading to the ventral aorta. We have already seen that some airbreathing fishes have a double circulation (the Japanese mudfish, Channa argus, even having a double ventral aorta), but only …

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