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Rhineura floridana, Florida Worm Lizard
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Rhineura floridana
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 31774)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 17 Jun 2008

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from Lakeland, Polk County, Florida by J. R. Schmidt. 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.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 6 December 2005 along the coronal axis for a total of 684 1024x1024 pixel slices. Each slice is 0.0232 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.0232 mm and a field of reconstruction of 10 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Amphisbaenidae page on the TIGR Reptile Database

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 , 2008, "Rhineura floridana" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Rhineura_floridana/.

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