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Varanus salvator, Water Monitor
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Varanus salvator
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 35144)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 06 Jan 2011

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from the East Indies by F. Buck. 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.

Varanus salvator
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 28 April 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 750 slices. Each slice is 0.201 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.201 mm and a field of reconstruction of 90 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Varanus salvator on the Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)

Literature

Varanus bibliography by Dr. Graham Thompson

Literature
& Links

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

To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2011, "Varanus salvator" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Varanus_salvator/.

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