The Development of the Weberian Ossicles in Pantosteus Plebius

• Main Author: Butler, John Lawrence
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: UNM Digital Repository 1959
• Subjects: Biology; Minnows; The Minnows
• Online Access: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/biol_etds/132; https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1132&context=biol_etds

The Weberian apparatus, which was first described by Weber in 1820, is characteristic of the largest order of freshwater fishes, the Ostariophysi, a group that includes, forty-two families, among which are the minnows, suckers, siluroids, and characids. The apparatus of the family Catostomidae, the...