The morphology and sculpture of ossicles in the Cottidae (Teleostei) of the Baltic Sea
Small to very small ossified structures (ossicles) such as cephalic horns, dermal five finger death punch a decade of destruction tubercles, fin-ray rods, lateral-line canal segments, branchial tooth plates and gill-raker tubercles of three species of the teleostean fish family Cottidae inhabiting the Baltic Sea are described and for the first time