Developmental morphological diversity in caecilian amphibians [electronic resource] : systematic and evolutionary implications / door Henrik Müller geboren te Berlin (Duitsland) in 1975.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Müller-Reineke, Hendrik.

Series:

LUP Dissertaties

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caecilians--Morphology.

Caecilians.

Caecilians--Anatomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 exceptions, previous studies on caecilian morphology have been restricted to investigations on adult material and were usually carried out on small samples. This thesis investigates skull development in caecilians. Earlier reports of an unusually high number of individual skull ossifications in Hypogeophis r

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Proefshcrift (Ph. D.)--Universiteit Leiden, 2007.

"Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden, op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. mr. P.F. van der Heijden, volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties te verdedigen op donderdag 8. november 2007 Klokke 10.00 uur."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-23168-9

9786613231680

90-485-0499-6

OCLC:

746747234