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Pteropus lylei, Lyle's Flying Fox
Dr. Nancy Simmons - American Museum of Natural History
Pteropus lylei
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American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 237593)

Image processing: Mr. Stephen Roberson
Publication Date: 15 Nov 2005

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About the Species

This specimen (AMNH 237593) was made available to the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility for scanning by Dr. Nancy Simmons of the American Museum of Natural History. Funding for image processing was provided by a National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative grant to Dr. Timothy Rowe of The University of Texas at Austin.

Right lateral view of skull

Dorsal view of skull

Ventral view of skull

About this Specimen

This specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 29 April 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 1475 slices, each slice 0.04465 mm thick with an interslice spacing of 0.04465 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Photos of flying foxes on The Animal Diversity Web (The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology).

Literature
& Links
turbinates pitch movie

Click on the thumbnail to the left for a pitch animation (1.6 mb) of the Pteropus turbinates.

turbinates pitch movie

Click on the thumbnail to the left for a roll animation (2.2 mb) of the Pteropus turbinates.

turbinates yaw movie

Click on the thumbnail to the left for a yaw animation (1.7 mb) of the Pteropus turbinates.

Additional
Imagery

To cite this page: Dr. Nancy Simmons, 2005, "Pteropus lylei" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Pteropus_lylei/.

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