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. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . H 5 mm Fig. 3.—^Jaw structure in the Carapidae. Lower jaws of a, Caya^MS ; B, Echiodon ; and c, Encheliophis. (Semidiagrammatic drawings based upon radiographs.) and also from the others in their slightly greater number of trunk vertebrae and in certain aspects of their dentition. In the systematic account they are therefore accorded subgeneric status. The second group of fierasfers contains only two species which have been available for examination, those originally described as Ophidium dentatum Cuvier and Echiodon Drummondi Thompson. The
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). . H 5 mm Fig. 3.—^Jaw structure in the Carapidae. Lower jaws of a, Caya^MS ; B, Echiodon ; and c, Encheliophis. (Semidiagrammatic drawings based upon radiographs.) and also from the others in their slightly greater number of trunk vertebrae and in certain aspects of their dentition. In the systematic account they are therefore accorded subgeneric status. The second group of fierasfers contains only two species which have been available for examination, those originally described as Ophidium dentatum Cuvier and Echiodon Drummondi Thompson. These species have been frequently confused with each other and generally assigned to Carapus. Both in structure and appearance, however, they differ considerably from the group of species so far considered. The body is considerably longer and the trunk region of the vertebral column comprises 27-28 vertebrae, the first two of which are similar to the first two of the species. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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