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An analysis of visceral skull bones morphology of six recent genera (Clupeonella, Sprattus, Clupea, Sardina, Sardinops, and Sardinella) and three fossil species (Illusionella tsurevica, I. pshekhensis, and Clupea doljeana) of Clupeinae was carried out. Description of bones of maxillary and opercular regions was done for examined taxa subject to generic and infra- and interspecific variability. Due to ascertained features of viscerocranium morphology of Illusionella species, we can distinguish them from all of the recent European clupeins. Also there is a number of generic features in this article which give us a possibility to distinguish either recent or fossil forms, even in case of separate paleoichhthyological material.
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Original Russian Text © E.M. Baykina, 2013, published in Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 2013, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 671–686.
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Baykina, E.M. Diagnostic importance of visceral skull bones of recent and fossil Clupeinae (Pisces, Clupeidae). J. Ichthyol. 53, 687–701 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945213050019
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