DIGESTIVE

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SYSTEM
BIRDS, SHARKS AND BONY FISHES

Presented By: RINALYN A. ELDUCAL

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BIRDS

▪ Warm blooded vertebrate of Class Aves.

▪ Having body covered with feathers.

▪ Forelimbs modified into wings

▪ Having scaly legs and a beak

▪ No teeth and bearing young in hard-shelled egg.

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Digestive System of Birds
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Key Characteristics of Bird’s Digestive
System
1. Complete Digestive System

2. Beak and No teeth

3. Crop

4. Proventriculus and Gizzard

5. Intestine

6. Cloaca
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SHARKS
▪ Any of more than 300 species of predatory
cartilaginous fish (Class Chondrichthyes)

▪ Skin typically dull gray and tough

▪ Tooth like scales

▪ Have muscular, asymmetrical, and upturned tail

▪ Pointed fins and snout

▪ Have sharp and triangular teeth

▪ Have no swim bladder

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Digestive System of Sharks
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Key Characteristics of Shark’s
Digestive System
1. Incomplete Digestive System

2. J-shaped stomach

3. Multiple rows of Teeth

4. Enzymatic Digestion

5. Spiral valve

6. Slow Digestion
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BONY FISHES

▪ Class Osteichthyes

▪ Skeleton more or less bony, vertebrae numerous

▪ Have paired fins, one pair of gill opening, jaws and paired
nostrils

▪ Mouth with many teeth( some have teeth but not easily visible)
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Digestive System of Bony Fishes

ESOPHAGUS
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Key Characteristics of Bony Fishes
1. Complete Digestive System

2. Teeth

3. Stomach

4. Intestine

5. Swim bladder

6. Liver and Pancreas

7. Cloaca
Featuresz Birds Shark Bony Fishes

Type of Digestive Complete Incomplete Complete

System
Mouth and Teeth Beak with no teeth Multiple rows of teeth Varying type of teeth

Stomach Divided into two: J-shaped Stomach Single-chambered

Proventriculus and stomach
Gizzard
Pancreas Single Multiple Single
Liver Large and divided Small and unlobed Large and unlobed
into lobes
Intestine Relatively short Relatively short Relatively long

Spiral Valve Absent Present Present

Cloaca Present Present Present
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