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About some skeletal particularities of the first vertebrae related to the mode of prey capture in Uranoscopus scaber (Uranoscopidae)
Huet, L.; Goosse, V.; Parmentier, E.; Vandewalle, P. (1999). About some skeletal particularities of the first vertebrae related to the mode of prey capture in Uranoscopus scaber (Uranoscopidae). Cybium 23(2): 161-167
In: Cybium. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris. ISSN 0399-0974; e-ISSN 2101-0315, more
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Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Uranoscopidae; Uranoscopus scaber; feeding; vertebral column

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  • Huet, L.
  • Goosse, V.
  • Parmentier, E., more
  • Vandewalle, P., more

Abstract
    Feeding in Uranoscopus scaber is characterised by bending of the body just behind the head. Bending is related to the organisation of the first five vertebrae: vertebral centra of lesser height fitting one into the next; short, less tilted neural spines, presence of many intervertebral ligaments. Bending of the vertebral column causes the head to rotate upward and the mouth to open just beneath the prey; it also brings the pharyngeal jaws, shifted with respect to each other at rest, to face each other.

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