. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology Supplement. 166 ELOPIFORM FISHES. 30 mm Fig. 84. Albula vulpes (Linnaeus). Entire skeleton, scales omitted. scales which extends from the occiput to just behind the dorsal fin. The general body squamation consists of thin cycloid scales, more or less square in shape, with three to four basal radii and four to five basal lobes. The posterior edge of the exposed field is often broken due to the thinness of the scale. The surface of the scale is marked only by circuli. The modified scale row in the mid-dorsal line consists of oval scales,
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology Supplement. 166 ELOPIFORM FISHES. 30 mm Fig. 84. Albula vulpes (Linnaeus). Entire skeleton, scales omitted. scales which extends from the occiput to just behind the dorsal fin. The general body squamation consists of thin cycloid scales, more or less square in shape, with three to four basal radii and four to five basal lobes. The posterior edge of the exposed field is often broken due to the thinness of the scale. The surface of the scale is marked only by circuli. The modified scale row in the mid-dorsal line consists of oval scales, whose length considerably exceeds their width. The bases of all fins are covered by scales. Axillary scales are present at the bases of the pectoral and pelvic fins. Bone cells are present in the scales. Albula oweni (Owen) (Text-figs. 85-87) 1840 Pisodus owenii Owen : 138, pi. 47, fig. 3. 1844 Pisodus owenii Owen ; Agassiz : 2, pt 2, p. 247 (name only). 1854 Pisodus owenii Owen ; Owen : 167. 1891 Pisodus oweni Owen ; Woodward : 108, pi. 3, figs. 3-5. 1893 Pisodus oweni Owen ; Woodward : 357, pi. 17. 1901 Albula oweni (Owen) Woodward : 60, pi. 4, figs. 1, 2. 1908 ? Albula oweni (Owen) ; Priem : 82, fig. 38, pi. 4, fig. 12. 1946 Albula oweni (Owen) ; Casier : 122, pi. 3, fig. 12. 1952 Albula oweni (Owen) ; Arambourg : 242, pi. 37, figs. 1-6. 1966 Albula oweni (Owen) ; Casier : 133, pi. 13, fig. 4. Diagnosis (emended). Albula in which the preorbital part of the neurocranium is equal to half the total neurocranial length. Quadrate/mandibular articulation in advance of the level of the lateral ethmoid. Parasphenoid teeth of the same size throughout the toothed area. Depth of the neurocranium at the autosphenotic approximately 35 per cent of the neurocranial length. Opercular bone twice as deep as wide. Ornamentation in the form of coarse rugosities present on the lateral edges of the frontals above the orbit and on the Please note that these images are extracted from sc
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