Fish scales. Polarised light micrograph of part of the skin of a fish,showing the placoid protective scales. These scales are found under the epidermis,and are made of bone-like dentine. The scales overlap one another,and the ones shown here have radiating bony spines at their outer edges,a characteristic of the fish the scales are from. The fish used here is a flat fish,the European sole (Solea solea) | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Wheeler, Dr. Keith |
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