Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-m8s7h Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-23T15:24:53.247Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

2. Some Observations on the Dentition of the Narwhal (Monodon monoceros)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Get access

Extract

The author expressed his concurrence with those anatomists who hold that the two tusks of the narwhal are situated in sockets in the superior maxillary bones, and not, as was stated by the Cuviers, in the premaxillæ, or partly in the pre- and partly in the superior maxillæ. He then proceeded to relate some further observations on the dentition of the narwhal, and pointed out, both in the skull of a young male and in those of three well grown fœtuses, an elongated canal on each side of the upper jaw, parallel and inferior to the tusk socket, which had the appearance of a socket for a supplementary tooth, although none protruded from it. In the young male a minute denticle was seen at the bottom of this socket.

Type
Proceedings 1871-72
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1872

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)