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THE BIOLOGY OF THE FROG 



CHAP. 



CHAPTER IV 



PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE 



Mouth Cavity. — If the mouth of the frog is held widely 

 open, the following parts will appear. In the roof of the 



mouth there is a pair of 

 rounded prominences caused 

 by the eyes, as has already 

 been mentioned. Around 

 the margin of the upper jaw 

 is a row of fine, sharp, closely 

 set fee/Zi which are conical in 

 shape and curved inward 

 more or less at the tip. Ex- 

 ternal to the teeth is a fleshy 

 fold, or upper lip, and on the 

 inner side is a groove, the 

 sulcus ma?ginalis, which re- 

 ceives the lower jaw when it 

 is closed. Anteriorly this 

 groove is crossed on each 

 side by a low elevation, the 

 pulviiiar rostrale ; immedi- 

 ately behind the tip of the 

 jaw the sulcus is deepened 

 again, forming the median 

 subivstral fossa; on each 

 side of the pulvinars are the 



Fig. 8. — Mouth of the frog widely 

 opened. E, Eustachian tubes ; 

 G, glottis ; /, lower jaw ; L, lat- 

 eral subrostral fossa; M, median 

 subrostral fossa; N, posterior 

 nares ; O, cesophagus ; P, pulvi- 

 nar rostrale; S, opening of the 

 vocal sac ; J", tongue ; tp, tuber- 

 culum prelinguale. 



