It is formed of fibres connecting up the right and left sides of the tectum opticum (?
The mesencephalon is a conspicuous structure in the fishes from its greatly developed roof (tectum opticum) which receives the end pencils of the optic nerve.
It abruptly expands dorsally along the medial face of the nasal to join the tectum nasi dorsolaterally; somewhat posteriorly the planum antorbitale joins the anterior maxillary process ventrally at the posterior margin of the internal nares.
The taenia tecta marginalis and thetectum synoticum are the only roofing cartilages present.
The anterolateral corner of the tectum nasi (tect.
It first appears within the capsule bordered dorsally by the tectum nasi, medially and ventrally by the septum nasi, and laterally by the alary cartilage.
The taenia tecti marginales and the tectum synoticum are covered dorsally and laterally by the frontoparietals.
The alary cartilage remains narrowly separated from the tectum nasi but fuses ventromedially with the septum nasi and forms a nearly complete cartilaginous capsule around the anterior end of the cavum principale.
Medially, the tectum nasi persists, overlaid by the nasal bone laterally.
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