The Skull of a Paddle-Fish with the Beak Removed

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“Skull of Spatularia, with the long beak removed, the anterior (asc) and posterior (psc) semicircular canals exposed; Au, auditory chamber; Or, orbit of eye; N, nasal sac; Hy, hyoidean apparatus; Er, representatives of branchiostegal rays; Op, operculum; Mn, mandible; A, B, suspensorium; D, palatoquadrate cartilage; E, maxilla.” —Whitney, 1889

Illustration of the exposed and labeled skull of a paddle-fish with the long beak removed.

Keywords

bones, beak, skull, Orbit, Polyodon, long beak, auditory chamber, fish with a beak, nasal sac, paddle-fish, spathularia, spatularia

Galleries

Fish Anatomy, Fish: O-P

Source

William Dwight Whitney, PhD, LLD The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1895) 5802

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