Can Fish Can Breathe With Their Skin in the USA

Skin. Many developing fishes breathe exclusively through their skin prior to gill development. Larval Monopterus respire through extensive subepithelial capillary networks. Posthatch Neoceratodus have a ciliated respiratory epithelium covering their body surface. Which fish breathes through skin? Mudskippers breathe through their skin and through the lining of the mouth (the mucosa) and throat (the pharynx)….