Figure 2
From: Anatomy of the endocrine pancreas in actinopterygian fishes and its phylogenetic implications
Gross internal organization and presence of the Brockmann Body (BB) in freshly dissected specimens of different teleost taxa. Anterior facing left. (a) Ateleopus japonicus, NTUM15935, 515 mm SL. (b–d) Gymnoscopelus braueri, MNHN 2022–0027, 117 mm SL. (b) posterior brown-reddish BB visible, anterior BB overlaid by the liver. (c) liver removed. (d) Zoom onto the anterior whitish BB. (e, f) Lophius piscatorius, MHNNT uncat. 57 mm SL. (e) BB in a fresh dissected specimen and (f) BB in an MRI image (modified from Chanet et al.31).
