Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
rostral tooth — (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) On a Decapoda carapace, a tooth on the rostrum, may be single or multiple, with the upper, lower and lateral teeth distinguished … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
rostral teeth — tooth like projections on the sides of the snout of Pristidae and Pristiophoridae. They lack a basal plate typical of other elasmobranch teeth and are made of orthodentine and vitrodentine with a pulp cavity filled with osteodentine … Dictionary of ichthyology
tooth — (Order Decapoda): Tooth like structure, either in gastric mill of cardiac stomach or referring to blunt, relatively broad projection on outer surface of carapace. In cardiac stomach, one may distinguish one median and two lateral teeth. On… … Crustacea glossary
epigastric tooth — Tooth of the carapace situated above the gastric region behind the first (posteriormost) rostral tooth (Fig. 2A) [Perez Farfante and Kensley, 1997] … Crustacea glossary
rostral bone — 1) the paired superficial dermal bone covering the ethmoid anterior to the eye in Holostei 2) a tooth bearing bone modified from an illicium on the tip of the snout of Lynophrinidae … Dictionary of ichthyology
carapace tooth — Generally blunt projection of carapace, often broader than spine. See: carapace teeth, stomatopod integumental ornamentation [McLaughlin, 1980]. Small sharp spinous projection in varied locations named types: (a) cardiac. Tooth on mid line of… … Crustacea glossary
frontal tooth — (Order Decapoda): Rostral tooth [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
Wolf tooth — Wolf teeth are small peg like teeth that sit just in front of (or rostral) to the first cheek teeth of horses and other equidae. They are vestigial first premolars and the first cheek tooth is referred to as the second premolar even when wolf… … Wikipedia
fish — fishless, adj. /fish/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) fish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) fishes, v. n. 1. any of various cold blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with … Universalium
Fish — /fish/, n. Hamilton, 1808 93, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1869 77. * * * I Any of more than 24,000 species of cold blooded vertebrates found worldwide in fresh and salt water. Living species range from the primitive lampreys and hagfishes… … Universalium
