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Morphology and biology of reptiles
- Title
- Morphology and biology of reptiles / edited by A. d'A. Bellairs and C. Barry Cox.
- Publication
- London : Published for the Linnean Society of London by Academic Press, c1976.
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- Description
- xi, 290 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 27 cm.
- Series Statement
- Linnean Society symposium series ; no. 3
- Subject
- Note
- Papers presented at a symposium held in the rooms of the Linnean Society in London, Sept. 9-10, 1975.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Contents
- The exploitation of land by early tetrapods / Everett C. Olson -- The dermal armour of some Triassic placodont reptiles / Frank Westphal -- How Sphenodon and Uromastyx grow their teeth and use them / Pamela Lamplugh Robinson -- 'Dinosaur monophyly and a new class of vertebrates': a critical review / Alan J. Charig -- Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds / John H. Ostrom -- Angiosperm-reptile co-evolution / Tony Swain -- On bone histology of fossil and living reptiles, with comments on its functional and evolutionary significance / Armand J. de Ricqles -- A systematic analysis of boid snakes / Garth Underwood -- Snake vertebrae- a mechanism or merely a taxonomist's toy? / J.P. Gasc -- Aspects of the biology of uropeltid snakes / Carl Gans -- Comparative histology of the endocrine glands, nasal cavities and digestive tract in anguimorph lizards / H. Saint Girons -- Some comments concerning interrelationships amongst gekkonine geckos / Anthony P. Russell -- Thermoregulation, metabolism and social behaviour in Lacertidae / R.A. Avery -- Adaptations of reptiles to cold / Ian F. Spellerberg.
- ISBN
- 0120858509
- LCCN
- 76011703 //r852
- OCLC
- ocm02846860
- SCSB-295975
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library