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Eryx colubrinus, East African Sand Boa
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Eryx colubrinus
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 63117)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 20 Oct 2008

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About the Species

This specimen was collected near Lake Latroun, Fayûm, Egypt by H. Hoogstraal on 27 May 1950. 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.

Eryx colubrinus
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 29 April 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 480 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.048 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.048 mm and a field of reconstruction of 18.5 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

sand boa page from Kingsnake.com

East African sand boa care sheet by Melissa Kaplan

Literature
& Links

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

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 , 2008, "Eryx colubrinus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed February 8, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Eryx_colubrinus/.

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