GENERAL TEETH CHARACTERISTICS

COMPARATIVE VERTEBRATE ANATOMY

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Keratinized "Teeth" Analogs
Myxini: Hagfish cutting plates

Cephalaspidomorphi: Lamprey, tubercles in mouth

Lissamphibia: Tailed frog tadpoles, keratinized "teeth" & beak

Testudines - Turtle beak (keratin that fits over upper jaw

Aves - Eagle Beak

Mammalia: Whale baleen, 2 types

Examples of Tooth Attachments
Skin
Chondrichthyes

Dusky or Bull Shark teeth on the upper jaw

Skate

Acrodont
Actinopterygii - Wolf eel

Lissamphibia - Goliath frog & most other frogs have vomerine teeth in palate that have acrodont attachment.

Lepidosauria - Caiman lizard

Lepidosauria - Boa (slightly modified acrodont pattern in snakes; teeth set in shallow depressions in jaw

Pleurodont
Lissamphibia - Necturus (salamander)

Lissamphibia - Frogs; teeth along jaw margins

Lepidosauria - Iguana

Lepidosauria - Varanid lizard

Thecodont
Actinopterygii - Baraccuda

Mammalia - Pig

Archosauria - Alligator

Mammalia - Cat

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