Abstract:Cutaneous sensory organs (sensilla) are mechanoreceptive structures present in the skin of squamate reptiles. In gekkotan lizards these structures are characterized by a raised eminence, the button, which bears one or more elongate hair-like bristles as well as a field of shorter spinules. Variation in the dimensions of these structures and in the number and elaborations of the bristles have been well characterized in the limbless pygopodid gekkotans and their tetrapodal relatives in the Diplodactylidae and Ca… Show more
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