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Definition of Scutes
1. scute [n] - See also: scute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scutes
Literary usage of Scutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"X }. seventh and eighth marginal scutes and parts of the second and third costal
scutes (Fig. ... Region of sixth and seventh marginal scutes, right side. ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"with a larger and smaller series of double scutes arranged on opposite sides.
Fetus III. has the long series 28-29 s'x scutes from the right, ..."
3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"[Plate 20] fig. i) leads to the suspicion that each dorsal plate of the tail was
composed of two scutes united by suture in the median line ; and though the ..."
4. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"[Plate 20] fig. i) leads to the suspicion that each dorsal plate of the tail was
composed of two scutes united by suture in the median line ; and though the ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Carapace with epidermic scutes. Hyo- and hypo-plastra not meeting medially. ...
Carapace with epidermic scutes. Limbs with four or five claws. ..."
6. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"The most numerous scutes are on the ventral surface of the thorax and abdomen,
where they form six longitudinal, and as many as twenty transverse rows. ..."
7. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"The most numerous scutes are on the ventral surface of the ... In the dorsal
region, on the other hand, no distinct nuchal and cervical scutes have as yet ..."
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