2. Characteristics

• a. bony skeleton and fin rays

  • usuually homecercal tail

• b. dermal scales (covered with epidermis, mucous): ganoid, cycloid or ctenoid

• c. terminal mouth

• d. gill operculum

• e. swim bladder

• f. Two-chambered heart

• g. Usually external fertilization

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