Tendon bone that forms in the tendon of the sternohyoid muscles ventral to the anterior end of copula 1. The urohyal associates by ligaments to the ventral hypohyals or it articulates with the ventral hypohyals. The urohyal is an unpaired bone. [ TAO:wd TAO:GA_TG ]
Synonyms: urohyal interclaviculaire parurohyal jugulaire clidoste
Term information
- ZFA:0000452
This class was sourced from an external ontology (teleost_anatomy). Its definitions, naming conventions and relationships may need to be checked for compatibility with uberon
Term relations
- dermal bone
- overlaps some dorsal hypohyal-urohyal joint
- overlaps some ventral hypohyal-urohyal joint
- part of some dermatocranium
- part of some ventral hyoid arch skeleton