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MISS BARBARA STEVENS, of Brooklands Technical College, has been kind enough to send me a dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) with an intra-pericardial hepatic intrusion. Only the anterior end of the dogfish is available; but the length from the tip of the snout to the anterior insertion of the pectoral fin is 9 cm., and the anterior ends of the testes present a mature appearance. Thus it may be inferred that the dogfish had practically reached full size with this abnormality when it was caught.
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FULLER, A. An Intra-Pericardial Hepatic Intrusion in the Common Dogfish. Nature 192, 280 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192280a0
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