Tiny hypobranchial4 cartilages appear at anteromedial tips of ceratobranchial 4; these are not obviously present in mature specimens, due either to resorption or fusion to the cartilaginous anterior tip of ceratobranchial. [ ORCiD:0000-0001-9114-8737 GOC:mh ]
Synonyms: hypobranchial 4 bones
Term information
- TAO:0001234
This may need to be obsoleted since it looks like the cartilage is either reabsorbed or fused with another skeletal element.
Term relations
- hypobranchial 4 bone
- hypobranchial bone
- develops from some hypobranchial 4 cartilage
- part of some pharyngeal arch 6 skeleton