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Skull structure of the flying fish Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Beloniformes, Exocoetidae)

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The skull of the flying fish Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus is first described in comparison with literature data on other four-winged flying fishes (subfamily Cypselurinae). The skull of Ch. pinnatibarbatus is characterized by the following features: (1) a multitude (about 40) of minute pores in the canal of the lateral line of the nasale; (2) a big opening in the roof of the myodome; (3) the lateral line canal of dentale by far does not reach the symphysis; (4) the tip of praeoperculum does not reach the upper edge of the hyomandibulare; (5) the posterior part of the angulare is weakly covered by the articulare and almost reaches from the outside the joint for articulation with the quadratum.

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nakhimovsky prospect 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia

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Ppublished in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 284–291.

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Shakhovskoy, I.B. Skull structure of the flying fish Cheilopogon pinnatibarbatus (Beloniformes, Exocoetidae). J. Ichthyol. 47, 259–266 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945207040017

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