Fish scale
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A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the
Cycloid scales cover these teleost fish (rohu)
Lobe-finned fishes, like this preserved coelacanth, have elasmoid scales.
The scales of this spotted gar appear glassy due to ganoine.
The alligator gar has a tough armouring of rhomboidal-shaped ganoid scales.
Alligator gar
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The alligator gar is a euryhaline ray-finned fish in the clade Ginglymodi of the infraclass Holostei, being most closely related to the bowfins. It is the largest species in the gar family, and is amo
Fish scale
…scales are greatly reduced in thickness to resemble cycloid scales. Native Americans and people of the Caribbean used the tough ganoid scales of the alligator gar for arrow heads, breastplates, and as shielding to cover plows. In current times jewellery is made from these scales. Leptoid (bony-ridge) scales are…
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Preserved display of an alligator gar head
Gill of a juvenile gar
Alligator gar caught in Moon Lake, Mississippi, March 1910