Denticles of Puffadder Shysharks (IMAGE)

Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf

Denticles of Puffadder Shysharks

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Denticles -- the modified scales -- of a puffadder shyshark seen through an optical microscope (left) and a scanning electron microscope (right) of CO2 exposed sharks denticles.

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Lutz Auerswald (left) / Jacqueline Dziergwa (right)

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