The intermuscular system of acanthomorph fishes : a commentary

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Alternative: Acanthomorph intermusculars

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Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3312

By

Johnson, G. David

Patterson, Colin

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2001

Notes

Title from caption.

"January 30, 2001."

"This paper is a response to Gemballa and Britz (1998), who presented a new interpretation of the intermuscular bones of acanthomorphs, homologizing them with the epicentrals of lower teleosts. We argue that their identification of epineural ligaments above the intermuscular bones in many acanthomorphs is mistaken; the structures in question are fanlike arrays of collagen fibers, not true intermuscular ligaments. We show also that undisputed epineural intermusculars penetrate or enter the horizontal septum in lower acanthomorphs (Velifer, Polymixia, beryciforms), and reiterate arguments for regarding the single series of intermusculars in most acanthomorphs as epineurals, secondarily displaced into the horizontal septum"--P. [1].

Subjects

Anatomy , Bones , Britz, Ralf , Collagen , Evolution , Gemballa, Sven , Homology of intermuscular bones in acanthomorph fi , Ligaments , Muscles , Osteichthyes

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3312, 2001

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2001)312<0001:TISOAF>2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 46314138