Talk:Canine tooth
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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
- "Canine teeth" or "Canine tooth"
(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!
These are also called cuspids — Chris Capoccia T⁄C 11:37, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
