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J. A. MOY–THOMAS1 has recently made important observations on the developmental relationship between the frontal bones and the supraorbital laterosensory canal in Salmo, and clearly considers that his experiments go far to destroy the whole basis of the homologization of dermal bones in fishes by reference to the latero–sensory system. His results are quite in harmony with, for example, Kindred's embryological study of Amiurus2, and no doubt some–what similar conditions occur widely in teleosts, where the dermal bones of the skull–roof, particularly the frontals, play an important part in the mechanical structure of the cranium.
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WESTOLL, T. Latero-sensory Canals and Dermal Bones. Nature 148, 168 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148168a0
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