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Insights into skull evolution in fossorial snakes, as revealed by the cranial morphology of Atractaspis irregularis (Serpentes: Colubroidea)
Download2020-07-21
Strong, Catherine R. C., Palci, Alessandro, Caldwell, Michael W.
This is the accepted (i.e., post-peer review, pre-typesetting) version of the following article: Strong, CRC, Palci, A, Caldwell, MW. Insights into skull evolution in fossorial snakes, as revealed by the cranial morphology of Atractaspis irregularis (Serpentes: Colubroidea). Journal of Anatomy....
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Skull Anatomy and Evolution in Scolecophidian Snakes (Squamata: Ophidia), with an Emphasis on the Role of Heterochrony
DownloadFall 2021
Scolecophidians (‘blindsnakes’) form an assemblage of miniaturized and fossorial snakes, comprising three main lineages: Anomalepididae, Leptotyphlopidae, and Typhlopoidea. Scolecophidians have long been viewed as diverging basally among snakes, constituting the modern vestige of an ancestrally...