EPAXIAL MUSCLES AND ACANTHOMORPH RELATIONSHIPS 



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Fig. 17 Epaxial musculature in cirrhitoids: a. Type 1 in Aplodactylidae, Aplodactylus punctatus (USNM 227298, 58.0 mm SL); b, modified 

 Type 1 in Cirrhitidae, Paracirrhitus arcaius (MPM 13587, 66.7 mm SL); c, Type 2 in Cirrhitidae, Amblycirrhitus bimacula (MPM 13509, 

 56.9 mm SL). Abbreviations and other methods of presentation as in Figs 1, 3. Scale bars = 5 mm. 



Fig. 18 Epaxial musculature of the pleuronectiform Achirus lineatus (MPM 13783, 95.0 mm SL). Individual slips of epaxialis insert on to the 

 dorsal third of the dorsal-fin pterygiophore shafts under the depressores dorsales. Abbreviations and other methods of presentation as in 

 Fig. 1. Scale bar = 10 mm. 



