- hyalodentine
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a bony material of calcium salts. Found deposited on the fibrillary plate of teleost scales
Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.
hyalodentine
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scale — 1) a small, stiff, typically plate like body in the skin of fishes, serving to protect, colour, and support the body. May be modified into spines, tubercles, bony plates, an exoskeleton, reduced or even lost. Phylogenetically absent in Amphioxi… … Dictionary of ichthyology
