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Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Lecture Notes 4 - Skeletal System III

Cyclostomes
visceral skeleton unlike that of jawed fishes Hagfishes - no identifiable pterygoquadrate or Meckel's cartilage

Jaw suspension of fishes


The jaw-hyoid complex of fishes requires bracing against some support to function effectively, and the nearest one is the neurocranium (endocranium).

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