Anguidae
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https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz035 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9C298799-D25B-5A23-FF1F-FB7325C7AC57 |
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Plazi |
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Anguidae |
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Anguidae View in CoL View at ENA ( Fig. 14U–Z View Figure 14 )
Anguids have a subtriangular orbitonasal flange projection, which is wider but very slightly shorter than the slender and truncated posteroventral process ( Fig. 14V, Y View Figure 14 ). There is no ornamentation in Anguis gr. An. fragilis ( Fig. 14U View Figure 14 ), whereas very mild rugosities are visible dorsally in Pseudopus apodus at the base of the dorsal process ( Fig. 14X View Figure 14 ). A distinct posterolateral projection is absent and the notch for the lacrimal foramen is wide and moderately ( Anguis gr. An. fragilis ; Fig. 14U–W View Figure 14 ), or very, deep ( Pseudopus apodus ; Fig. 14X–Z View Figure 14 ). The dorsal process is slender and moderately long, being as long as, or slightly longer than, the rest of the prefrontal in lateral view.The palpebral crest is low; in adults of Anguis gr. An. fragilis it is not clearly recognizable.
JUGAL
Jugals ( Fig. 16 View Figure 16 ) are curved and paired bones, roughly L-shaped in lateral view, with an anterior and a posterodorsal process. The anterior process can have a medially developed shelf, the palatal process, whose posterior end can develop a triangular medial process of the jugal. Between the anterior and the posterodorsal processes, a quadratojugal process can develop in ventral direction. A row of small foramina pierces the lateral surface of the bone.
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