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Title: Chordata & Pisces & Acipenseriformes & Acipenseridae, Sturgeon [Go to resource]
Description: Unlike most other bony fishes, Sturgeons have large, thin, boney plates instead of scales. This skull was mounted, nose upwards, on a brass support by Thomas Atthey in the 19th century. Minute holes were bored in the bones and thin wire threaded through and twisted to hold them exactly in place. This specimen used tp be covered by a glass dome. Source: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Identifier: emu.ecatalogue.vertebratezoology.200949 Go to resource More Like this...
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