opercular cleft
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The opening between the gill-cover - operculum - and the trunk, allowing the water after passing the gills to leave the gill cavity. Not to be confused with "gill cleft", which means the space between two gill arches as well as that between first and last gill arch each and the skull and the trunk, respectively.
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