I like that they are placed at her ribs too. Most times we see gills on humanoids they tend to be on the neck and that never really made sense to me considering how little surface area for exchange that would give versus total body mass.
I like that they are placed at her ribs too. Most times we see gills on humanoids they tend to be on the neck and that never really made sense to me considering how little surface area for exchange that would give versus total body mass.
Anatomically speaking, both placement makes little to no sense. Neckgills was worse than ribgills, but considering the entry point (which is either nose or mouth), even with ribgills you won't be able to capture enough oxygen fast enough to catch up with the body mass' need, not to mention both nose and mouth breathing carries risk of debris caught in the respiratory lane. The most logical and anatomically possible placement for gills' inlet in humanoids would be just above their clavicules, on the triangular opening which the apex of the lungs occupy.