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About Mammals in the Animal Diversity Web

The pages and figures listed here are some of the special aids to learning about mammals provided in the Animal Diversity Web. Others can be found by following links in the accounts of specific orders or families.

Antlers & Horns

Bats; special figures include:
   faces
   premaxillae
   wings
    feet and calcar

Cranial Anatomy of the dog
    dorsal
    lateral
    ventral
    basicranial
    orbit
    inside of lower jaw
    outside of lower jaw

Hair
   description
    X section of a hair follicle
    cuticular scales

Jaws and Ears

Legs, Feet, and Running
    Stance (plantigrade, digitigrade, unguligrade)
    Mesaxonic, Paraxonic
    Raccoon skeleton

Mammary glands

Metatheria (text)
      Didelphis cranium (dorsal)
   Didelphis cranium (ventral)
    inflection of angular process

Rodent Jaws
    Protrogomorphous, sciuromorphous, hystricomorphous, myomorphous
    superfical masseter, lateral masseter, medial masseter
    Infraorbital foramina and zygomatic plates
    Zygomatic plate
    Sciurognathy vs. hystricognathy

Teeth (Introduction)
   Structure and placement of individual teeth
       Cross section of a tooth
       enamel and dentine in a porcupine tooth
   Milk teeth and the replacement of teeth
   Differentiation of teeth in an individual
       the kinds of teeth
   The basic structure of cheek teeth
       talonid, trigonid, trigon
   Chewing
   The diversity of cheek teeth
       dilambdodont
       zalambdodont
       quadrate
       carnassials
       tribosphenic lower
       tribosphenic upper
       lophodont, loxodont, selenodont, secodont, bilophodont
      Summary figures of dental variation
         Incisors
         Canines
         Cheekteeth
            Murine rodents
            Sigmodontine rodents
            Shrew unicuspids
   


Written by Phil Myers; last updated 11/23/97

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