internarial flap

internarial flap
a ridge or ridges between the incurrent and excurrent nostrils. This may serve to divert a flow into the incurrent nostril and over the olfactory lamellae and out the excurrent nostril as the fish swims through the water or holds position in a current

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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