Photographs of comb-like pharyngeal teeth of Recent and Fossil Ctenopharyngodon idella (Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844) (IMAGE)

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Photographs of comb-like pharyngeal teeth of Recent and Fossil Ctenopharyngodon idella (Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1844)

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(a) a pair of pharyngeal bones of an adult C. idella in dorsal view,showing the teeth in original condition, IVPP OV 2636, anterior facing left; (b) pharyngeal bone in antero-lateral view, showing two rows of teeth, IVPP OV2636; (c) Line drawing of a right main row tooth in posterior (c1) and dorsal (c2) views, showing structures of tooth (modified from Zhang et al. 1985); (d) a left pharyngeal bone with all teeth but A3, IVPP V13714, in dorsal view; (e) a left main row tooth, IVPP V2452, in anterior (e1), dorsal (e2), and posterior (e3) views.

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