- humeral 'scale'
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a large, usually dark, scale-like projection of the postcleithrum above the base of the pectoral fin and just behind the opercle, e.g. in Etheostomatinae (Percidae)
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
humeral 'scale'
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