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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biol J Linn Soc Lond. 2015 Sep 8;116(2):377–396. doi: 10.1111/bij.12598

Figure 9:

Figure 9:

Schematic diagram of a dermal flap in cross section showing skin elements. Scales are held in place with collagen; nerve fibers between collagen layers extend through an overlying scale to the core of the dermal flap. Light and medium blue, collagen (coll); pink, dermal flap (df), dark pink, muscle (m); brown, melanophore (mel); black, nerve tract (n); dark blue, scales (sc), center scale with spinule.