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Developmental Morphological Diversity in Caecilian Amphibians : Amphibians Systematic and Evolutionary Implications.
Caecilians, or Gymnophiona, constitute one of the three extant orders of the Recent Amphibia and comprise about 170 named species in six families. They are the least known, major living tetrapod clade. Compared to frogs and salamanders, caecilians have an unusual skull morphology. With few exception...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Leiden University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | LUP Dissertaties.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- SUMMARY; SAMENVATTING; CHAPTER 1
- INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2 Ontogeny of the skull, lower jaw and hyobranchial skeleton of Hypogeophisrostratus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) revisited; CHAPTER 3 Morphology of larval caecilian amphibians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): implications for caecilian evolution; CHAPTER 4 Heterochrony, ontogenetic repatterning, and the evolution of direct development in caecilian amphibians; CHAPTER 5 A novel form of parental investment by skin feeding in a caecilian amphibian
- CHAPTER 6 Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphuskirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)CHAPTER 7
- SYNOPSIS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Curriculum vitae; Publications