Their alteration, especially with the addition of pigment and a false base, would have made them virtually indistinguishable from the maxillae to the unpracticed eye.
Only complete maxillae and mandibles could be scored accurately for alveolar changes, thereby reducing the sample size to nine dental arcades (from distinct individuals).
This material adheres to the maxillipeds bordering the mouthparts as water is withdrawn, and is then transferred to the mouth via the maxillae.
Although most of these wore pendants of imitation human maxillae, four soldiers each had between seven and eleven real human maxillae.
However, in a few cases the pendants were real rather that imitation human maxillae.
Proboscis heavily chitinized, labella prominent, mandibles and maxillae absent, hypopharynx and labrum with teeth reduced to hair-like spines.
Although several mandibles and maxillae were labeled as to lot number or individual, or were in bags with lot numbers, it became clear that many of these did not match.
The long slender maxillae and mandible are specialised for puncturing the skin of the host fish.
