“…It is well known that feeding in captivity should cause adaptation and modifications of the morphological characteristics of the oral cavity, especially of tongue and teeth. Morphological data, particularly on tongue of different species of fish, are present in literature (Abbate et al., 2006, 2017; Abbate, Guerrera, Montalbano, Ciriaco, & Germanà, 2012; Abbate, Guerrera, Montalbano, De Carlos, et al, 2012; Collar, O'Meara, Wainwright, & Near, 2009; Dos Santos, Arantes, Santiago, & Santos, 2015; El Bakary, 2014; Elgendy, Alsafy, & Tanekhy, 2016; Guerrera et al., 2015; Ikpegbu, Ibe, & Nlebedum, 2019; Levanti et al., 2017; Mahmoud, Essa, & Sayed, 2016; Montalbano et al, 2016; Price et al., 2010; Sadeghinezhad, Rahmati‐Holasoo, Fayyaz, & Zargar, 2015; Yashpal, Kumari, Mittal, & Mittal, 2009). Nevertheless, recent data regarding the tongue anatomy in upper vertebrates are significative and could be very important in comparative anatomy (Abbate et al., 2008, 2009, ; Emura, 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2017, 2018a, 2018b, 2018c, 2018d; Emura & Sugiyama, 2016; Erdogan & Alan, 2012; Erdoğan & Iwasaki, 2014; Erdoğan, Lima, & Pérez, 2016; Erdoğan & Sağsöz, 2018; Erdoğan, Villar Arias, & Pérez, 2016; Erdoğan, Villar, König, & Pérez, 2018; Herrel, Redding, Meyers, & Nishikawa, 2014; Jackowiak, Skieresz‐Szewczyk, Godynicki, Iwasaki, & Meyer, 2011; Jackowiak, Skieresz‐Szewczyk, Kwiecińsk, Trzcielińska‐Lorych, & Godynicki, 2010; Sadeghinezhad et al., 2015; Sadeghinezhad, Sheibani, Memarian, & Chiocchetti, 2017; Sadeghinezhad, Tootian, & Javadi, 2018; Skieresz‐Szewczyk, Cornillie, & Jackowiak, 2018; Skieresz‐Szewczyk & Jackowiak, 2016, 2017; Skieresz‐Szewczyk, Jackowiak, & Ratajczak, 2018, 2019).…”