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species name
means 'blunt spear' and
refers to the way the
nuchal and
paranuchal plates in the back of the head form the
shape of a
blunted spearhead....
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hosted a spiracle. The
largest bones in the
skulls are the
posterior paranuchal plates, each of
which forms the rear edge of the head armor,
between the...
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pattern is
closer to
actinolepidoids with only one pair of
postorbital and
paranuchal plates. The
skull roof's
lateral lines are
gently curving like
those of...
- They have
short and
broad anterior ventrolateral plates, as well as
paranuchal plates with
postnuchal process. They also
feature long,
narrow anterior...
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rather fragmentary,
known from a left
anterior dorsolateral plate, a left
paranuchal plate, and an inferognathal. A.
rufus is
known from a nearly-complete...
- it was
found (Wee Jasper).
Cathlesichthys is
known from an
incomplete paranuchal, and
nuchal plates,
attaining a
skull length of
around 20 cm. Young, Gavin...
- "Taemasosteidae") was
originally erected on the
basis of "an imperfect"
paranuchal, though, more
specimens were found,
eventually leading "Taemasosteidae"...
- is also
armored with
interlocking dermal plates;
nuchal plate,
paired paranuchal plate,
paired postmarginal plate,
postpineal plate,
premedian plate, paired...
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Ursinoscorpaenopsis differs from
other scorpionfish genera by
having a
paranuchal spine, a
supplemental spine on the last
suborbital spine and non-fleshy...
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shield length,
measured from the
rostral tip to the hind
margin of the
paranuchal bones (analogous to the
tabular bones of
modern bony fishes), of 40.5 cm...
