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    The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure...
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    Shark (section Lateral line)
    thin channel. The lateral line shows a similar arrangement, and is open to the environment via a series of openings called lateral line pores. This is a...
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    Head and lateral line erosion, (HLLE) or hole-in-the-head (HITH) is a disease in fish. Chronic ulcerative dermatopathy or chronic erosive dermatopathy...
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  • An Artificial Lateral Line (ALL) is a biomimetic lateral line system. A lateral line is a system of sensory organs in aquatic animals such as fish, that...
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  • not hear very well. Most fish have sensitive receptors that form the lateral line system, which detects gentle currents and vibrations, and senses the...
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    their prey using electroreceptors derived from the lateral line organ in the head. The lateral line itself is mechanosensory, enabling them to sense water...
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    pounds). P. virens has a strongly defined, silvery lateral line running down the sides. Above the lateral line, the colour is a greenish black. The belly is...
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    The lateral line is a line running along each side of the fish from the gill covers to the base of the tail. In laboratory experiments the lateral lines...
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    fishes have a lateral line, a system of mechanoreceptors that detect water movements. In bony fishes, the scales along the lateral line have central pores...
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    external or middle ear. Low-frequency vibrations are detected by the lateral line system of sense organs that run along the length of the sides of fish...
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