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Term information
database
cross reference
- ZFA:0001411
- TAO:0001411
external definition
A pair of small dish-shaped bones that cap the anterior and posterior margin of the eyeball.[TAO]
taxon notes
The scleral ossicles [of teleosts] are reported to form indirectly by endochondral (Hall and Miyake, 1992) or by perichondral ossification (Patterson, 1977) from a cartilage element that is also present in the sclera. This is unlike the scleral ossicles of reptiles, which develop directly from ectomesenchyme (i.e., intramembranous ossification) and independently from the scleral cartilage
Term relations
Subclass of:
- endochondral bone
- scleral ossicle
- facial bone
- develops from some scleral cartilage
- part of some chondrocranium