label: magnocellular superficial pretectal nucleus
label_lc: magnocellular superficial pretectal nucleus
description: "Diencephalic nucleus that is part of the superficial pretectum and is caudally contiguous with the caudal pretectal nucleus. Cells of the magnocellular superficial pretectal nucleus are slightly larger and more orderly around a central neuropil than those of the caudal pretectal nucleus. From Neuroanatomy of the Zebrafish Brain."