A BRIEF REVIEW OF LIMB ANOMALIES IN LIZARDS AND PRESENCE OF ECTRODACTILY IN Aspidoscelis costatus (SQUAMATA: TEIIDAE)
Edgar De La Rosa Silva,
Aldo Gómez Benitez,
Daniel Sánchez Manjarrez
et al.
Abstract:Whiptail lizards have been reported to survive serious wounds inflicted during collection by humans and failed predation attacks. Thus, it appears that these lizards can survive a variety of limb-specific injuries, though rapid movement is a key adaptation in many teiid lizards. We herein review the little-known subject of extremity abnormalities in lizards stimulated in part by discovery of the first profound naturally occurring limb anomaly among hundreds of lizards of the genera Aspidoscelis and Cnemidophor… Show more
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