The operculum is a bony structure covering and protecting the gills in teleosts; it plays an important part in the breathing mechanism. Elasmobranchs do not have an operculum but there are separate gill slits for each gill. The lateral line is a jelly-filled tube or canal just below the skin.
Richard Gere. Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Ann (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants.
Mini Bio (1). The son of an attorney, Richard Carlson had an introspective quality to his performances and looked every inch the academic he first aspired to be.hen he returned to the screen, it was without the intensity and vigour which had characterised his pre-war performances. After several years of indifferent acting parts, Richard found renewed energy for his third-billed appearance in MGM's lavish Technicolor remake of King Solomon's Mines (1950).