Underground Down Under: Skull anatomy of the southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 (Typhlopidae: Serpentes: Squamata)
| العنوان: | Underground Down Under: Skull anatomy of the southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 (Typhlopidae: Serpentes: Squamata) |
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| المؤلفون: | Edward L. Stanley, Rebecca J. Laver, Juan D. Daza, Ryan J. Ellis, Aaron M. Bauer |
| المصدر: | The Anatomical Record. 304:2215-2242 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0301 basic medicine, Histology, Squamata, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Animals, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Scolecophidia, biology, Osteology, Skull, Australia, Fossorial, Lizards, Snakes, Anatomy, Comparative anatomy, biology.organism_classification, Typhlopidae, 030104 developmental biology, medicine.anatomical_structure, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Endocast, Biotechnology |
| الوصف: | The cranial anatomy of blindsnakes has been markedly understudied, with the small size and relative rarity of encountering these subterranean reptiles being significant limiting factors. In this article, we re-visit the skull anatomy of the Australian southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 using microCT data, and produce the first complete atlas for the cranial anatomy of a representative of this speciose typhlopid genus. The skull is formed by 18 paired and four unpaired elements. We here produce a bone-by-bone description of each element as well as an inner ear endocast for each of two specimens differing in skull size. This approach has revealed the presence of a highly perforated dorsal plate on the septomaxilla-a structure convergent with the cribriform plate of the mammalian ethmoid bone-and a feature previously unknown for typhlopid snakes. This detailed anatomical study will facilitate ongoing taxonomic and systematic studies in the genus Anilios as well as provide comparative data for future studies on blindsnake anatomy more broadly. |
| تدمد: | 1932-8494 1932-8486 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::89d9d71d82ba549f146c70846ae654fe https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24696 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....89d9d71d82ba549f146c70846ae654fe |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19328494 19328486 |
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