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Rhacodactylus auriculatus, Gargoyle Gecko
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Rhacodactylus auriculatus
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California Academy of Sciences (CAS 205486)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 15 Jul 2009

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About the Species

This specimen was collected in Kwa Neie, New Caledonia by A. M. Bauer, J. L Wright and R. A. Sadlier on 22 May 1998. 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. Jens Vindum of the California Academy of Sciences. 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.

Rhacodactylus auriculatus
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 8 June 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 510 slices. Each 1024x1024 pixel slice is 0.073 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.073 mm and a field of reconstruction of 30 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Rhacodactylus page from Wikipedia

Rhacodactylus page from the TIGR Reptile Database

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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the scleral ossicles, 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

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To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2009, "Rhacodactylus auriculatus" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Rhacodactylus_auriculatus/.

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