The respiratory mechanisms of a shallow‐water, marine and estuarine flathead, Platycephalus fuscus C. & V. are described. Morphological and behavioural adaptations enabling respiration while the fish is buried in fine, unconsolidated sediments are investigated and related to the ecology of the species.
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