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Amphiesma stolata, Striped Keelback
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Amphiesma stolata
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 169627)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 12 Oct 2007

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from the Chiengmai University campus, Chieng Mai Province, Thailand by K. Strong on 21 April 1967. It was made available to The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin and Mr. Alan Resetar of the Field Museum. Funding for scanning and image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Assembling the Tree of Life grant (EF-0334961), The Deep Scaly Project: Resolving Squamate Phylogeny using Genomic and Morphological Approaches, to Drs. Jacques Gauthier of Yale University, Maureen Kearney of the Field Museum, Jessie Maisano of The University of Texas at Austin, Tod Reeder of San Diego State University, Olivier Rieppel of the Field Museum, Jack Sites of Brigham Young University, and John Wiens of SUNY Stonybrook.

Amphiesma stolata
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Richard Ketcham on 10 February 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 735 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.031 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.031 mm and a field of reconstruction of 13.5 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Colubridae page on The Reptile Database

Literature
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the hyoid and jaw removed, and of the isolated left mandible. All are less than 2mb.

Skull pitch movie

Skull roll movie

Mandible yaw movie

Mandible pitch movie

Mandible roll movie

Additional
Imagery

To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2007, "Amphiesma stolata" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed March 20, 2010 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Amphiesma_stolata/.

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