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FIG. 5 in Variations on a bauplan: description of a new Malagasy "mermaid skink" with flipper-like forelimbs only (Scincidae, Sirenoscincus Sakata & Hikida, 2003)

  • 1. Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 4, D-38106 Braunschweig (Germany) CNRS-UMR 5175 CEFE, Centre d'Écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, 1919 route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier cedex 5 (France) miralles.skink@gmail.com
  • 2. Département de Biologie animale, Université d'Antananarivo, B.P. 906, Antananarivo 101 (Madagascar)
  • 3. Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin (Germany)
  • 4. Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstr. 21, D-81247 München (Germany)
  • 5. Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstr. 4, D-38106 Braunschweig (Germany)

Description

FIG. 5. — Computed tomographic reconstruction of the skull of the holotype specimen Sirenoscincus mobydick n. sp. (UADBA R70487) with the sclerotic rings coloured in green, in lateral (A) and dorsal (C) views. B represents the ossicles in the sclerotic ring, redrawn from A.

Notes

Published as part of Miralles, Aurélien, Anjeriniaina, Mirana, Hipsley, Christy A., Müller, Johannes, Glaw, Frank & Vences, Miguel, 2012, Variations on a bauplan: description of a new Malagasy "mermaid skink" with flipper-like forelimbs only (Scincidae, Sirenoscincus Sakata & Hikida, 2003), pp. 701-719 in Zoosystema 34 (4) on page 712, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n4a3, http://zenodo.org/record/5166538

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