The amphisbaenian ear: Blanus cinereus and Diplometopon zarudnyi.
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The amphisbaenian ear: Blanus cinereus and Diplometopon zarudnyi.
Observations on the structure and function of the ear in amphisbaenians have been extended to two new species: to Blanus cinereus of the family Amphisbaenidae and Diplometopon zarudnyi of the family Trogonophidae. Blanus, considered one of the most primitive of this group of reptiles, shows a distinctive form of sound-receptive mechanism. The usual extracolumella is lacking, and the columella a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.72.4.1487