魚類學相關名詞中英對照
名詞 定義 
scale a small, membranous or horny, stiff, typically plate-like body in the skin of fishes, serving to protect, colour, and support the body. May be modified into spines, tubercles, bony plates, an exoskeleton, reduced or even lost. Phylogenetically absent in Amphioxi and Cyclostomata, and lost in various examples of the other groups, e.g. Torpedo, Ictalurus. The teleost scale is dermal in origin and consists of two major parts - the outer bony, hyalodentine or sclerite layer and the deeper fibrous section called the lamellar layer, fibrillary plate or basal plate. See placoid scale, ganoid scale, cycloid scale and ctenoid scale (latter two also called leptoid or elasmoid scales). Scales have a central focus or centre, an anterior or oral filed, a posterior or aboral field (visible on the flank), and dorsal and ventral fields.  
鱗片 在魚皮膚內的一種小的、膜狀或角狀、且通常是硬的板狀體,功能在於保護、呈現色彩和支撐身體。可能特化成棘狀、瘤狀、骨質板、外骨骼、也可能退化甚或消失。此特徵在系統發生學中未見於文昌魚目與圓口綱,也消失在其它類群的多個例子上,例如電鱝屬、鮰屬。硬骨魚鱗片起源於表皮且主要由兩個部份組成 - 外部是骨骼的hyalodentine或骨片層,比較內部的是被稱作薄板層、纖維板或基板的纖維部分。請參見盾鱗、硬鱗、圓鱗與櫛鱗(後二者也稱作 「leptoid」 或「 elasmoid」) 。鱗片有一個中央焦點或中心、一個前區或 
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