| 41. | Lastly, the " supracaudal scutes " surround the area above the tail.
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| 42. | The bright spots on its marginal scutes were like light bulbs in a mirror.
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| 43. | The gular, humeral, pectoral, abdominal, femoral, and anal scutes.
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| 44. | The upper body is covered by a dark grey bony carapace of squarish scutes.
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| 45. | Such small round scutes also covered the throat.
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| 46. | Terminal scute very small, with two points.
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| 47. | Terminal scute with a transverse ridge, indistinctly bicuspid, rounded in the young.
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| 48. | The scutes also tend to be sharper and more pointed than in white sturgeon.
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| 49. | The plastral scutes join along a central seam down the middle of the plastron.
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| 50. | Single rows of paired oval scutes may have filled in between the spiked rows.
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