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American Zoologist 1966 6(3):368-370; doi:10.1093/icb/6.3.368
© 1966 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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The Origin of the Lateral-Line Sensory System

ROBERT H. DENISON
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago, Illinois

Several groups of early vertebrates had in the dermis a pore-canal system that was probably a primitive sensory system functioning to detect water displacements. The lateral-line sensory system, and possibly the inner ears, are believed to have been derived from the pore-canal system.


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