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The pharyngeal dental formula ofMylopharyngodon piceus is 4–5 as a rule, and the dentition is asymmetrical. It is difficult to identify each tooth in the larval dentition. In this paper the appearance pattern of tooth germ with development process in this fish is described in detail. The formation pattern of the left dentition is contrasted with that of the right one. In the developmental process, the left pharyngeal dentition lacks teeth at position An3. Thus the left dentition is D-type as designated by Nakajima (1984), while the right one is A-type.
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Pei-qi, Y., Tsuneo, N. Appearance pattern of tooth germs with developmental process inMylopharyngodon piceus . Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 13, 155–161 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846821
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