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Food transport in Reptilia: a comparative viewpoint. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023 Reptilia exploit a large diversity of food resources from plant materials to living mobile prey. They are among the first tetrapods that needed to drink to maintain their water homeostasis.
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A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) [PDF]
Biological Reviews, 2021 Osteoderms are mineralised structures consisting mainly of calcium phosphate and collagen. They form directly within the skin, with or without physical contact with the skeleton.
C. Williams +10 more
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Descriptions of Extinct Batrachia and Reptilia from the Permian Formation of Texas
, 2018 E. Cope
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The holotype of the basal archosauromorph Prolacerta broomi revisited [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Prolacerta broomi is one of the most important of fossil reptiles. First considered as one of the earliest members of squamates, this basal archosauromorph has been used as a model for diapsid morphological evolution ever since its discovery, playing ...
GABRIELA SOBRAL
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Diversity, 2021 Karstic landscapes are immense reservoirs of biodiversity and range-restricted endemism. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world’s third-largest vertebrate genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkonidae) which contains well over 300 species.
L. Grismer +15 more
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Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) feeding on snakes (Reptilia: Squamata)
The journal of arachnology, 2021 . In this paper, 319 incidents of snake predation by spiders are reported based on a comprehensive global literature and social media survey. Snake-catching spiders have been documented from all continents except Antarctica.
M. Nyffeler, J. Gibbons
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A bird-like skull in a Triassic diapsid reptile increases heterogeneity of the morphological and phylogenetic radiation of Diapsida [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The Triassic Period saw the first appearance of numerous amniote lineages (e.g. Lepidosauria, Archosauria, Mammalia) that defined Mesozoic ecosystems following the end Permian Mass Extinction, as well as the first major morphological diversification of ...
Adam C. Pritchard, Sterling J. Nesbitt
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Patterns and biases in climate change research on amphibians and reptiles: a systematic review [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Climate change probably has severe impacts on animal populations, but demonstrating a causal link can be difficult because of potential influences by additional factors.
Maiken Winter +5 more
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Historia naturalis bulgarica, 2023 Very large specimens of T. graeca ibera were found in Bulgaria, but mostly in the 20th century. Presently, such tortoises are almost absent in the country. Here we summarise data about the largest spur-thighed tortoises registered in Bulgaria and provide
Emanuil Mitrevichin +3 more
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Entamoeba sp. infection in a bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) [PDF]
Veterinarski Glasnik, 2020 A 3-year-old, male intact, pet inland bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) presented with a history of diarrhea, progressive inappetence and weight loss. A palpable cranial celomic mass was identified on physical examination and confirmed to be hepatic in ...
Schwartz Diana +5 more
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