Jawad, L. A.
Alwan, N.
Article History
Received: 9 January 2019
Revised: 11 November 2019
Accepted: 18 November 2019
First Online: 13 May 2020
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
: The authors benefited from a SYNTHESYS Project, financed by the European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the FP6 “Structuring the European Research Area” Programme, which allowed us to visit the Natural History Museums in London and Paris and to acquire the radiographs. Many thanks are also expressed to the authorities and technicians at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, American University of Beirut (Natural History) Museum, Collection of the Biology Department of Shiraz University, and to Dr. Jörg Freyhof from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries for all the facilities offered during this work. Our sincere thanks are due to Kristiaan Hoedemakers, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat, Brussels, Belgium for reading the manuscript.