The naso-frontal joint inAnilius scytale(Linnaeus) andCylindrophis rufus (Schiegel): Serpentes, Aniliidae
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Natural History
- Vol. 11 (5), 545-553
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00222937700770471
Abstract
Some osteological features of the kinetic system in the skull of Anilius scytale and Cylindrophis rufus are described showing a marked divergence of the two species. Cylindrophis is more specialized in showing a more rigid structure as an adaption to the burrowing habits of the snake. Some aspects of the new prokinetic joint of snakes, lying between the frontals and the nasals rather than between the frontals and the parietals as the mesokinetic joint in lizards, are discussed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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