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Notes on hyperostosis in the fish Drepane punctata (Linnaeus)

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Title Notes on hyperostosis in the fish Drepane punctata
(Linnaeus)
 
Creator Murty, V Sriramachandra
 
Subject Fishery biology
 
Description While studying certain anatomical differences between the two species of the genus
Drepane namely Drepane punctata (Linn.) and Drepane longimana (Bloch &
Schneider) some thickened bones popularly called ' stones' were noticed by the
author in D. punctata. Cantor (1849) stated that in the largest specimen (V5"=
433 mm.) of D. punctata examined by him the rounded protuberance of the skull
between the eyes is very large and prominent and the roots of the four central caudal
rays are enlarged and joined together without any intermediate membrane, and
Delsman (1925) made a mention of the inflation of frontals, supraoccipitals and
lacrymals in D. punctata. Besides these, the present observations in D. punctata
revealed certain other bones showing hyperostosis the occurrence of which has not
hitherto been reported. Results of a detailed study of the nature and occurrence of
such bones are given in this paper.
 
Publisher MBAI/CMFRI
 
Date 1967
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/978/1/Article_07.pdf
Murty, V Sriramachandra (1967) Notes on hyperostosis in the fish Drepane punctata (Linnaeus). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 9 (2). pp. 323-326.