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Dictionary of Ichthyology |
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supralingual = lingual plate (a dermal toothed bone covering and sometimes fusing with the basihyal, e.g. in Osteoglossidae. Also called glossohyal, dermentoglossum, entoglossum, os entoglossum, supralingual or basihyal dental plate). |
| Hyoid and opercular apparatus of Gadus, B = branchiostegals, E = os entoglossum, H = hyoid, HM = hyomandibula, I = interoperculum, O = operculum, P = preoperculum, S = suboperculum, from Kingsley's "Textbook of Vertebrate Zoology, 1906. Photograph by Brian W. Coad.....more |