Plate 3 of Review Lecture: Some advances in coelacanth biology

These are figures 10; 17 and 18 of a review lecture delivered 1 February 1979 at the Royal Society: Some advances in Coelacanth biology by Nicholas Adams Locket, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Figure 10: . Embryo Latimeria recovered from a large female in the American Museum of Natural History by Smith et al.(1975). The yolk sac is still attached and the fins folded over and closely applied to the body.

Figure 17: Epithelium on posterior surface of iris. The two cell layers are not easily distinguished, but the posterior layer, to the right, is approximately cubical and has a more or less smooth free border.

Figure 18. ‘Ciliary’ epithelium . This epithelium , from between the root of the iris and the ora serrata, shows a posterior layer of which the cells are considerably elongated and bear a highly convoluted free border. These cells maybe the site of secretion of the aqueous intraocular fluid.