Image: Cleared and stained Viperfish
A cleared and stained Viperfish. Note the blue stained notochord behind the head and the missing vertebral centra.
- Photographer:
- Ralf Britz
- Rights:
- © Ralf Britz
- Common name:
- Viperfish
- Scientific name:
- Chauliodus sp
- Family:
- Chauliodontidae
- Order:
- Stomiiformes
Additional information
For more information on the lack of vertebral centra and the 'occipito-vertebral gap', click on the link (above right) to 'Grow a backbone'.
NA - neural arch
SN - supraneural
C - centrum
Papo -parapophysis
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Viperfish, Chauliodus sp, Chauliodontidae,
