The fold of integument, usually supported by bony plates, which protects the gills of most fishes and some amphibians; the gill cover; the gill lid.
It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines.
Defn: A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates.
Defn: A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates.
The orbits are of huge size; and as the eyeball was protected, like that of birds, by a ring of bony platesin its outer coat, we even know that the pupils of the eyes were of correspondingly large dimensions.
The hind-limbs were stronger and longer than the fore-limbs, and the lower surface of the body was protected by an armour of bony plates.
As an adjective "ganoid" is sometimes used as descriptive of bony plates or enameled scales, some-in the sense of archaic, as applied to fishes.
The scales, if present, are cycloid or replaced by bony plates.
Usually the Ganoids have an armature of bony plates, diamond-shaped, with an enamel like that developed on the teeth.
In all the Dipnoans the trunk is covered with imbricated cycloid scales and no bony plates, although sometimes the scales are firm and enameled.
The surface of the fish may be naked as in the catfish, or it may be covered with scales, prickles, shagreen, or bony plates.
The shoulder-girdle, suspended from the cranium by post-temporal and supraclavicle, is covered by bony plates.
The bodily covering may take the form either of coarse hairs, or of bony plates, with a larger or smaller intermixture of hairs.
The exoskeleton is formed of bony plates, the dorsal and ventral shields each consisting of several symmetrically arranged pieces.
Passing to the more detailed characters:--there is sometimes a well-developed exoskeleton having the form of bony platesor spines.
No bony plates or spines have been discovered with the remains of this monster; so that we are driven to conclude that it was wholly without armour: and, moreover, there seem to be no signs of offensive weapons of any kind.
The back part of the skull rises up into a kind of huge crest, and this during life was protected by a special fringe of bony plates.
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