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Amphisbaena alba, Giant Amphisbaena
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 195924)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 29 Nov 2006

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from serrania Santiago, Prov. Chiquitos, Santa Cruz, Bolivia by R. F. Steinbach in 1973. 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.

Amphisbaena alba
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 4 October 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 735 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.053 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.053 mm and a field of reconstruction of 23 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Amphisbaenidae page from the EMBL Reptile Database

pictures of Amphisbaena alba from the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Literature
& Links

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

Skull yaw movie

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 , 2006, "Amphisbaena alba" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed March 20, 2010 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Amphisbaena_alba/.

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