gill-slits

The water racing through her gill-slits smelled of blood.

The Plot Synopsis Project II ewillett 2008

The water racing through her gill-slits smelled of blood.

Tearless onions ewillett 2008

The water racing through her gill-slits smelled of blood.

I've sold another novel! Edward Willett 2006

The water racing through her gill-slits smelled of blood.

Archive 2006-07-09 Edward Willett 2006

Where the concept of evolution proved itself particularly useful was in the interpretation of structures which were not immediately conditioned by adaptation to present requirements, such as, for instance, the arrangement of gill-slits and aortic arches in the foetus of land

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

He compared these gill-slits with those of a dogfish.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Amphioxus, he thinks, is not a Vertebrate, and Ascidians, though sharing with Annelids the possession of a notochord, gill-slits, and a "dorsal" nervous system, yet are further removed from Vertebrates than the latter by reason of their lacking that essential characteristic of Vertebrates, metameric segmentation.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

There were generally present, he found, four gill-slits, and, as Rathke had suggested, the first gill-arch became the lower jaw.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

The gill-slits were largely formed by outgrowths from the alimentary canal.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Amphioxus and Vertebrates, how gill-slits were formed in the walls of the pharynx, and how there existed in the ascidian larva a structure which in position and mode of development was the strict homologue of the vertebrate notochord.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology