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Excavatory Cycle of Leposternon microcephalum Wagler, 1824 (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia)
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Autores: Barros-Filho,José Duarte de; Hohl,Leandro dos Santos Lima; Rocha-Barbosa,Oscar.
The excavatory movements of the spade-snouted amphisbaenid Leposternon microcephalum (Reptilia, Squamata) was studied with the aid of videofluorscopy (X-ray) techniques. This allows the observation of skull and column movements along tunneling, and a more detailed motion observation, being so a novel approach for amphisbaenian excavatory rescarches. A single specimen of Leposternon microcephalum was kept in a glass terrarium filled with semoline, and filmed with a scopy (X-ray) machine. Fixed anatomical marks on the head of the specimen were put in drawings from the framed recordings. Selected sequences of the recordings were fragmented in isolated frames for motion observation. The analysis of the recordings revealed a repetitive pattern of excavatory...
Tipo: Journal article
Palavras-chave: Reptilia; Amphisbaenia; Leposternon microcephalum; Scopy; Locomotion.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022008000200027