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The vascular anatomy of the lateral musculature of the flatheadPlatycephalus bassensis, was studied by scanning electron microscopy of corrosion casts. Arteries and veins showed an alternating pattern in neighbouring vertebral segments. The red muscle was supplied by five major branches of the intermuscular artery, and the white muscle by infrequent branches of the intermuscular artery, dorsal segmental artery and ventral segmental artery. Venous drainage of the red and white muscles broadly mimicked the arterial supply. The functional unit of the trunk vasculature can be considered as an artery, a vein and connecting fine blood vessels. There appear to be 2 over-lapping types leading to alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise flows of blood. Small satellite vessels were observed running parallel to most of the larger blood vessels. No anatomical A-V shunt vessels, or series vascular connections between the red and white muscle, were observed. The irregular, alternating adult system is postulated to have developed from an earlier system showing strict bilateral symmetry and equal arterial and venous development in each vertebral segment.
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Mosse, P.R.L. Vascular anatomy of the lateral musculature of the flathead,Platycephalus bassensis (Teleostei: Perciformes). Zoomorphologie 95, 133–148 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00997907
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