Dictionary of Ichthyology
mandible = the lower jaw, used in the sense of a functional unit without respect to the bones and cartilage making up the jaw.
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mandible = the lower jaw, used in the sense of a functional unit without respect to the bones and cartilage making up the jaw. |
| Shark skull, a = auditory capsule, b = basibranchial, c = keratobranchial, e = epibranchial, g = gill cleft, h = hyoid, hm = hyomandibula, l = labial cartilages, m = mandible (Meckel's cartilage), o = olfactory capsule, p = pharyngobranchial, pq = pterygoquadrate, r = rostrum, s = spiracle, 2, 5 = exits of second and fifth nerves, I-V = branchial arches., from Kingsley's "Textbook of Vertebrate Zoology, 1906. Photograph by Brian W. Coad. |