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Fig. 2

From: Histology and morphometry of the skin of the trident goby Tridentiger brevispinis (Perciformes, Gobiidae)

Fig. 2

The histology of the dorsal snout and operculum skin of Tridentiger brevispinis, stained with hematoxylin and eosin (A, B, C) and Masson’s trichrome (D). A The skin (dorsal snout) structure classified largely into the epidermal (ED) with outermost surface layer (OS), middle layer (ML) and stratum germinativum (SG) and dermis (DM) with stratum laxum (SL) and stratum compactum (SC); B the dorsal snout consisting of mucous cells (MC), pigment cells (PC), taste buds (TB), stratified flattened cells (SFC), stratified polygonal cells (SPC); C and D the operculum showing the stratified columnar cells (SCC) of the ED above the basement membrane (BM), the blood capillaries (yellow asterisk), scale (S) and the PCs in the SL of the DM. The bars indicate 50 μm in A and 20 μm in B-D, respectively

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