. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. B. Disarticulated frontal bones of (A) Halibut {Hijypogloasus hippoghssus)and (Bj Plaice (Pleuronedes platessa). (After Traquair.) pfa, praefrontal articulation; ip, iuterorbital process; t, interorbital bar. In the skull of all flat-fishes there is a bony interorbital barmainly formed by the interorbital portion of the frontal bone 4 Ewhilion of Oie Order Iltterosomata, of tlie eyed side, dis|»laced outwards and downwardn ; tliotroTjtal of tlie blind side is broad and may send forward aprocess to share in the fo
. The annals and magazine of natural history : zoology, botany, and geology. B. Disarticulated frontal bones of (A) Halibut {Hijypogloasus hippoghssus)and (Bj Plaice (Pleuronedes platessa). (After Traquair.) pfa, praefrontal articulation; ip, iuterorbital process; t, interorbital bar. In the skull of all flat-fishes there is a bony interorbital barmainly formed by the interorbital portion of the frontal bone 4 Ewhilion of Oie Order Iltterosomata, of tlie eyed side, dis|»laced outwards and downwardn ; tliotroTjtal of tlie blind side is broad and may send forward aprocess to share in the formation of the interorbital bar, butthe main part of this bone in th(M)rbitaI region is on the wrongside of its eye, although its r< lations are normal in otherresj)ect3. The last-named fact leads one to suspect thecorrectness of Trnquair*s interpretation of Ihis j)art of thefrontal of the blind side, which he regards as a new processsent forwartls to join the prailrontal in order to form a bar orbridge supposed to be requisite for the stability of tiiecranium. Traqna
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