hyoid arch
anatomy
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vertebrate muscular systems
- In muscle: Jawed fishes
…the gill septum of the hyoid arch is greatly modified to become a single, movable, bony covering for the whole gill chamber—the operculum. The individual gill septa are lost, and there is a great modification of the posterior branchial muscles, with many of the elements found in sharks (e.g., levators…
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