relating to the bones of the area below the tail of fish
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The five hypurals in the caudal skeleton were also fused to form three hypural elements.
Hyo Jae Yu, Jin-Koo Kim 2016, 'Osteological development of wild-captured larvae and a juvenile Sebastes koreanus(Pisces, Scorpaenoidei) from the Yellow Sea', Fisheries and Aquatic Scienceshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41240-016-0021-0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cartilage formation takes place first at the branchial arches and cranium; then hypural, haemal and neural arches are consecutively formed.
Francisca Zavala-Muñoz, Mauricio F. Landaeta, Valentina Bernal-Durán, Guillermo A.Herrera, Donald I. Brown 2016, 'Larval development and shape variation of the kelpfish Myxodes viridis (Teleostei:Clinidae)', Scientia Marinahttp://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/1613. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)