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The Telencephalon of Cartilaginous Fishes

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The fishes are the largest group of vertebrates. Two subdivisions can be recognized: the Osteichthyes or bony fishes including about 25,000 species, and the Chondrichthyes or cartilaginous fishes comprising only about 800 species. The latter is separated from the former by several features but the most distinctive is their cartilaginous endoskeleton.

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Smeets, W.J.A.J. (1990). The Telencephalon of Cartilaginous Fishes. In: Jones, E.G., Peters, A. (eds) Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part I. Cerebral Cortex, vol 8A. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9622-3_1

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