BIOLOGY 453 - COMPARATIVE VERT.

ANATOMY Integument Photos - Part 1, Anamniotes

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Hagfish - note the row of ducts located ventrally along the body for the exit of mucous from the numerous slime glands

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Hagfish - this row of larger pores are the exits for water from the hagfish's gills.

Hagfish Skin - higher power shows thin epidermis Hagfish Slime Gland - high power shows part of large, with unicellular mucous glands (at bottom of image), deep epidermal slime gland (at bottom) & surrounding thick dermis with connective tissues (green) & smooth skeletal muscle that must contract to expel the slime. muscle (red). Chromatophores are numerous at the epidermal & dermal boundary.

Lamprey Skin - shows epidermis at far right with some Hagfish Skin - Low power shows epidermis & dermis unicellular mucous glands. Dermis is relatively thin of skin & the skeletal muscle that surrounds slime compared to the hagfish. Far left shows some muscle gland. tissue in cross section.

Chondrichthyes
Shark Dermis - note the ~ 90 degree angles between different groups of collagen fibers in the dermis. Shark Skin - shows 1 placoid scale that has pulled away from the surrounding epidermis. Find the pulp cavity in the scale. Locate the chromatophores both in the epidermis & within the pulp cavity of the scale. A little bit dermis is present as the dermal papilla associated with the scale.

Osteichthyes
Bony fish skin at low power. Bony fish skin at high power showing the dermal scale & overlying (thin) epidermis with unicellular mucous glands. Bony fish scales ganoid, cycloid & ctenoid

Source: http://courses.washington.edu/chordate/453photos/skin_photos/special_integument 1.htm Oct 23rd, 2011