The third ear-ossicle of mammals, the stapes, comes not from the first arch but from the second.
In some Anura it formed the ossicle of the ear (homologue of the columella of birds and the stapes of mammals), in others it disappeared.
There is no tympanic cavity or auditory ossicle in relation to the ear.
A prenasal ossicle is developed in front of the mesethmoid.
An accessory carpalossicle in front of the pisiform, which is not seen in the figure.
A vertebral arm-ossicle (fused ambulacrals) of a Zygophiuran, Ophiolepis.
These ossicles are known as the malleus and incus, and the chain of the three ossicles replaces physiologically the single ossicle of the lower forms.
The tympanic membrane serves to receive from the air the sound vibrations, which are communicated to fluids contained in the true auditory labyrinth by one ossicle or by a chain of auditory ossicles.
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