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Xenopeltis unicolor, Sunbeam Snake
The Deep Scaly Project - Multiple Institutions
Xenopeltis unicolor
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Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH 148900)

Image processing: Dr. Jessie Maisano
Publication Date: 21 Dec 2007

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About the Species

This specimen was collected from Labang camp on Sungei Seran, 4th Division, Bintulu District, Sarawak, Borneo by W. Hosmer and J. P. Bacon on 11 December 1963. 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.

Xenopeltis unicolor
Lateral view of the scanned specimen.

About this Specimen

The specimen was scanned by Matthew Colbert on 1 December 2004 along the coronal axis for a total of 660 slices. Each slice is 0.052 mm thick, with an interslice spacing of 0.052 mm and a field of reconstruction of 23 mm.

About the
Scan

Links

Xenopeltis unicolor article from the Cold Blooded News (Newsletter of the Colorado Herpetological Society)

X. unicolor care sheet on kingsnake.com

pictures of X. unicolor on the Herpetofauna of Myanmar website (California Academy of Sciences)

Xenopeltidae page from the EMBL Reptile Database

Literature
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Three-dimensional volumetric renderings of the skull with the 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

Additional
Imagery

To cite this page: The Deep Scaly Project , 2007, "Xenopeltis unicolor" (On-line), Digital Morphology. Accessed May 23, 2012 at http://digimorph.org/specimens/Xenopeltis_unicolor/.

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