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ZOOLOGY 



SECT. 



certain portions of it are replaced by cartilage bones, and there are 

 in addition numerous membrane-bones developed in the surround- 

 ing connective tissue. As in the Dog-fish, the skull maybe divided 

 into cranium, upper and lower jaws, with their suspensory apparatus, 

 and hyoid and branchial arches. 



The cranium (Fig. 812) is a somewhat wedge-shaped structure 

 its apex being directed forwards. At first sight the distinction 

 between cartilage and membrane-bones is not obvious, but after 



SOCb 



FIG. 811. Salmo fario, the entire skull, from the left side. a,-t. articular; Iranckiost. 

 branchiostegal rays; dent, dentary ; epiot. epiotic ; eth. supra-etlmoid ; /'/. frontal; hyom. 

 hyomandibular ; intop. inter-opercular ; Jug. jugal ; mpt. mesopterygoid ; mtpt. metaptery- 

 goid ; mx. maxilla ; nas. nasal ; o. sub-orbitals ; op. opercular ; pal. palatine ; par. parietal ; 

 pmx. pre-maxilla ; pmop. pre-opercular ; pt. pterygoid ; pter. pterotic ; Quad, quadrate ; 

 socc. supra-occipital ; sphot. spheiiotic ; subop. sub-opercular ; sympl. symplectic ; Zuiiye, basi- 

 hyal. (From Wiedersheim's Vertebrata.) 



maceration or boiling certain flat bones (the paired parietals, PA., 

 frontals, FB. t and nasals, NA., and the unpaired supra-ethmoid, 

 S.ETH.) can be easily removed from the dorsal surface ; and two 

 unpaired bones (the parasphenoid, PA. SPH., and vomer, VO.) from 

 the ventral surface. These are all membrane-bones : they are 

 simply attached to the cranium by fibrous tissue, and can readily 

 be prised off when the latter is sufficiently softened by maceration 

 or boiling. We thus get a distinction between the cranium as a 

 whole, or secondary cranium, complicated by the presence of mem- 



