scutation

The number and arrangement of scutes.

Noun

  1. The number and arrangement of scutes.
    • The morphology of dermal scutation in callichthyids is quite different from that in loricariids, with two rather than three more series of overlapping plates along the body, suggesting that the types of scutation in...
    • There has been a great deal of stability in scutation of the carapace during chelonian evolution (Zangerl and Johnson, 1957). - 1989, Charles Wax Caillouet, AndrĂ© M. Landry, Proceedings of the First International...
    • The dorsal scutations and configurations of the cephalic plates are also different in the two species. - 1991, Mary E. Petersen, J. B. Kirkegaard, Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta:

Origin

From scute + -ation.

Forms

scutations