Fig. 5 in Assessing the morphological identification of guard hairs from Brazilian deer

Fig. 5. Mazama americana (Erxleben, 1777). Light micrograph of the impression of a guard hair plucked from the lateral region of the thorax of a male individual, presenting a transverse wave with ornate scale edge cuticular pattern. This pattern is morphologically described as having no defined angles in the shape of the scales, their contour being wavy and composing a set of smooth transitions between protrusions and recesses of varying depths. Furthermore, the scales are arranged transversely in relation to the longitudinal axis of the hair and the edges may have small ridges and undulated or wavy indentations, with regular intervals or not, and with varying sizes (20x magnification).