A Palæoniscoid fish showing a condition of squamation almost identical with that of Polyodon.
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Squamation
//skweɪˈmeɪʃən//
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1 entries- تحرشف، حرشفة noun (pathology, dermatology: scaly growth on the skin)
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The literature is poorly documented on the development of squamation in fishes other than teleosts except in the primitive actinopterygian fishes, the holosteans Lepisosteus and Amia.
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A fish from the Muschelkalk…has been made the type of the genus Prohalecites on account of peculiar features in its squamation.
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Eurynotus…still retains the palæoniscid squamation.
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