Talk:Gill

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I'll clean this article up starting on June 5th (after my exams) unless someone else has time to do it before then. We need a clear definition of gill followed by full discussion of the variety of form and function that exists. Especially a description of gill function from micro to macro level and description of the range from simplicity to complexity represented by gill types. I'll knock up some diagrams of the most common gill structures and features, and think about the structure of the article. Blahah (talk) 16:53, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Most people probably come here wanting to learn about fish respiration. I want to add maybe a paragraph in the beginning that's just a general overview of how gills work and their structure. I know this info, I just can't cite it - I haven't been able to find any legitimate online resources to cite. There's either no citation info or bad info in general on external sites. Someone with a good book should cite that, or maybe a bit from the fish respiration section under fish should be copied.Ultrauber (talk) 03:20, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

PLEASE clean this article up! It needs to be sectionalized and talk less about the lungs of dragonflies and random animals. An article on Gills needs to be about gills, not what animals have gills! --Felixed 16:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

PLEASE FIX PAGE! It should be divided up into more sections, have more info about the gills themselves, and should have information about the gill tissue.Gill is also a girls name and one lives in drumlin drive milngavie...

There doesn't seem to be any information on the gill as an osmoregulatory organ. I'd add it, but that was what I came here to read about so might be able to tell I'm not the best qualified. Zachary Gibbons 16:10, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

yes it should be cleaned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.75.114.136 (talk) 06:57, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Gill flap birth defect pic? Would it not be better to show a picture of a person pulling back the gill flap, or just have a dead fish with the gill flap cut off? It's a weird picture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.39.145 (talk) 14:13, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

Gills on humans?
Would it be possible to transplant gills into the human body to enable them to breathe underwater? no u retard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.0.182.58 (talk) 14:07, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Should the "See also" section be alphabetized?
The list goes as follows:

"Aquatic respiration

Book lung

Fish gill

Gill raker

Gill slit

Lung

Artificial gills (human)"

Could anyone please tell me if "Artificial gills (human)" should come after "Aquatic respiration" instead? (Edit: Added spaces and links to list and capitalized quoted list entries.)--Thylacine24 (talk) 19:03, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Pliny and Aristotle on Gill Respiration
In the history section, it's mentioned that (purportedly) Pliny the Elder and others at the time knew that gills were used in respiration, but that Aristotle disagreed. The cited work, Cyclopaedia, doesn't state this: a digital search of the work only turned up "Pliny the Elder" on one page (http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&id=HistSciTech.CycloSupple02&entity=HistSciTech.CycloSupple02.p0285&q1=gills), which does mention gills and respiration, but never any story that Aristotle refuted the idea of that use. If someone can locate a source on that story, please add a new citation; if not, it probably shouldn't be mentioned.Etymographer (talk) 08:31, 25 March 2020 (UTC)