The jaw adductor muscle complex in teleostean fishes: evolution, homologies and revised nomenclature (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii)

A Datovo, RP Vari - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The infraclass Teleostei is a highly diversified group of bony fishes that encompasses 96%
of all species of living fishes and almost half of extant vertebrates. Evolution of various …

Adaptation and innovation in darter fish cranial musculature (Etheostomatinae: Percidae): insights from diceCT

JH Arbour, S Ramazan, S Clark - Zoological Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Fish skulls are often highly kinetic, with multiple linkage and lever systems powered by a
diverse suite of muscles. Comparative analysis of the evolution of soft-tissue structures in the …

The adductor mandibulae muscle complex in lower teleostean fishes (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii): comparative anatomy, synonymy, and phylogenetic implications

A Datovo, RP Vari - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Bony fishes of the morphologically diverse infraclass Teleostei include more than 31 000
species, encompassing almost one-half of all extant vertebrates. A remarkable anatomical …

Replacing the first-generation dentition in pufferfish with a unique beak

GJ Fraser, R Britz, A Hall… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Teleost fishes comprise approximately half of all living vertebrates. The extreme range of
diversity in teleosts is remarkable, especially, extensive morphological variation in their jaws …

A new phylogeny of tetraodontiform fishes (Tetraodontiformes, Acanthomorpha) based on 22 loci

F Santini, L Sorenson, ME Alfaro - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2013 - Elsevier
Tetraodontiform fishes represent one of the most peculiar radiations of teleost fishes. In spite
of this, we do not currently have a consensus on the phylogenetic relationships among the …

Anatomy and evolution of the mandibular, hyopalatine, and opercular muscles in characiform fishes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)

A Datovo, RMC Castro - Zoology, 2012 - Elsevier
The Characiformes are distributed throughout large portions of the freshwaters of Africa and
America. About 90% of the almost 2000 characiform species inhabit the American rivers …

Function and Morphology of the Mandibular Upper Jaw in Teleostei: Dependence on the Feeding Peculiarities

ES Gromova, VV Makhotin - Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
The review presents an overview of the function of the mandibular upper jaw in connection
with the peculiarities of the jaw morphology in various Teleostei species at the definitive …

When Tradition Meets Technology: Systematic Morphology of Fishes in the Early 21st Century

EJ Hilton, NK Schnell, P Konstantinidis - Copeia, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
Many of the primary groups of fishes currently recognized have been established through an
iterative process of anatomical study and comparison of fishes that has spanned a time …

The Developmental Pattern of the Musculature Associated with the Mandibular and Hyoid Arches in the Longnose Gar, Lepisosteus osseus (Actinopterygii …

P Konstantinidis, P Warth, B Naumann… - Copeia, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
This is the first in a planned series of studies in which we examine the cranial muscle
ontogeny of exemplar taxa of actinopterygian clades to obtain a better understanding of the …

A comparative ontogenetic study of the tetraodontiform caudal complex

P Konstantinidis, GD Johnson - Acta Zoologica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Konstantinidis P. and Johnson, GD 2012. A comparative ontogenetic study of the
tetraodontiform caudal complex.—Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 93: 98–114. Interpretation of …