'Plywood' structure and mineralization in the scales of the ocean sunfishes, Mola mola and M. ramsayi.
The mineralized dermal denticles of fibrillar structure of the dermal plate of the modified scales of Mola mola and Mola ramsayi have both highly specialized and archaic features suggesting that the Molidae branched from the teleost line at an early stage in its evolution.
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Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.