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- In muscle: Major types of vertebrate muscles
…appendicular, or limb, muscles and axial muscles. The axial muscles include the muscles of the tail, trunk, and eyeballs as well as a group of muscles called hypobranchial muscles, which separate and migrate from the others during development.
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Gymnophiona
- In Gymnophiona: Form and function
…orders, only caecilians have an axial musculature in which all the hypaxial components, excluding the subvertebral musculature, form an outer muscular sheath. This sheath, which is anchored to the skin by fibrous connective tissue, is all but disconnected from the vertebral musculature and thereby allows the skin and superficial muscles…
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