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Pharyngeal gill slits are found in

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Shark
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Cray fish
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Cuttle fish
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Star fish
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Solution

The correct option is A Shark
  • Crayfish belongs to the phylum Arthropoda.
  • Cuttlefish is a mollusc.
  • Starfish is an echinoderm animal.
  • Sharks are chordates. They have pharyngeal gill slits. Pharyngeal gill slits are one of the primary characters of chordates.
  • They have a single dorsal fin, simple vertebral column, a sub-terminal mouth, and over 5 pairs of gill slits.

Thus, the correct answer is option A.

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