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The biogeography of bent-toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
PeerJ, 2022 The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third largest vertebrate genus on the planet with well over 300 species that range across at least eight biogeographic regions from South Asia to Melanesia.
L. Grismer +4 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 Spatial heterogeneity of vegetation is considered to be one of the most important factors that can influence species richness in a region and, therefore, an important driver for species diversity.
SILARA F. BATISTA +2 more
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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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Journal of Morphology, Volume 284, Issue 1, January 2023., 2023 The perpendicular insertion of Sharpey's fibers in the external cortex suggests the presence of a thick leathery skin layer overlying notosuchian osteoderms. Although intramembranous ossification is the main process involved in the development of crocodyliform osteoderms, we reported a case of metaplastic development.
Mariana Valéria de Araújo Sena +12 more
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A review of the osteoderms of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 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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Leishmania spp. in Squamata reptiles from the Mediterranean basin.
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021 Leishmania tarentolae is a non-pathogenic trypanosomatid species isolated from geckoes in the Mediterranean basin. In Italy, L. tarentolae and Leishmania infantum occur in sympatry in areas where canine leishmaniosis (CanL) is endemic.
J. Mendoza-Roldan +7 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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Comparative skull osteology of the lacertid lizards Eremias persica and Mesalina watsonana (Sauria: Lacertidae) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2011 The skull of two lacertid lizards of Iran including Eremias persica from Isfahan Province, Central Iranian Plateau and Mesalina watsonana from Birjand in Southern Khorasan Province, Eastern Iran, was described and compared based on seven dry skull ...
A Khosravani +2 more
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Marine Biology, 2021 Ocean warming is affecting marine ectothermic herbivores as well as the macroalgal species they consume and this has the potential to alter their trophic interaction.
Veronika Mitterwallner +3 more
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Diversity, 2023 Pinus squamata is a rare and endangered tree endemic to northeastern Yunnan Province, China, and it is listed as a Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP) in China for requiring urgent conservation.
Fengrong Li, Weibang Sun
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