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I changed the text to say "Most species that develop them normally have four per individual...". I can't be sure from what i found whether there are any 2-, 6- or 8-canine species.
Hard to tell from Google; abstr of "Phylogeny, form and function of canine teeth in the horse" was hit 36 searching
(note the accidental & ineffective lower-case "or"!), and the first hit not about humans, house pets, or the giant ground sloth. With [ cattle] it seems to be an arbitrary choice of terminology! But with [[ http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/weirdwhitetails/wt_ww1201vampire/ whitetail deer, a few individuals occasionally have canines where most have nothing.
Eucynodontia suggests that differention of teeth came between reptiles and mammals, but there were also dinosaurs with canines.
Plenty of work to do here!
-- Jerzy (t) 22:23, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
These are also called cuspids — Chris Capoccia T⁄ C 11:37, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
As seen here, the unerupted permanent "eye teeth" literally appear to be closer to the eye than the others. Is it possible the term reflects simple observation of skulls? I can't put an unverified speculation into the article, but I am skeptical that the term "eye teeth" is purely based on superstition. Mike Serfas 19:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
"Cuspid" redirects here. I searched for "cuspid" trying to find out what the bicuspid and tricuspid heart valves referred to. Should there be a disambiguation page? Thanks. -- Irrevenant [ talk ] 05:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
According to the article, "their roots sink deeply into the bones." Is that why maxillary canines can easily evolve into horns on many ruminants? Lestrade ( talk) 23:46, 4 April 2010 (UTC)Lestrade
I've commented out a sentence about narwhals, which seems out of place in an article that begins with "In mammalian oral anatomy". It probably should be either rewritten and moved to the "In non-mammals" section or deleted altogether. — Kpalion (talk) 07:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
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I changed the text to say "Most species that develop them normally have four per individual...". I can't be sure from what i found whether there are any 2-, 6- or 8-canine species.
Hard to tell from Google; abstr of "Phylogeny, form and function of canine teeth in the horse" was hit 36 searching
(note the accidental & ineffective lower-case "or"!), and the first hit not about humans, house pets, or the giant ground sloth. With [ cattle] it seems to be an arbitrary choice of terminology! But with [[ http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/weirdwhitetails/wt_ww1201vampire/ whitetail deer, a few individuals occasionally have canines where most have nothing.
Eucynodontia suggests that differention of teeth came between reptiles and mammals, but there were also dinosaurs with canines.
Plenty of work to do here!
-- Jerzy (t) 22:23, 2005 Feb 7 (UTC)
These are also called cuspids — Chris Capoccia T⁄ C 11:37, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
As seen here, the unerupted permanent "eye teeth" literally appear to be closer to the eye than the others. Is it possible the term reflects simple observation of skulls? I can't put an unverified speculation into the article, but I am skeptical that the term "eye teeth" is purely based on superstition. Mike Serfas 19:28, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
"Cuspid" redirects here. I searched for "cuspid" trying to find out what the bicuspid and tricuspid heart valves referred to. Should there be a disambiguation page? Thanks. -- Irrevenant [ talk ] 05:35, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
According to the article, "their roots sink deeply into the bones." Is that why maxillary canines can easily evolve into horns on many ruminants? Lestrade ( talk) 23:46, 4 April 2010 (UTC)Lestrade
I've commented out a sentence about narwhals, which seems out of place in an article that begins with "In mammalian oral anatomy". It probably should be either rewritten and moved to the "In non-mammals" section or deleted altogether. — Kpalion (talk) 07:57, 22 December 2015 (UTC)